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UNGULATES. 
covered with hair, except a small spot at the extremity; and the profile of the face 
is convex. The horns are black and thick in both sexes; in the males they rise 
(as in our figure) close together, 
and at first curve outwards, 
after which they make a sharp 
turn and are directed straight 
backwards. According to Mr. 
A. O. Hume, the horns of the 
female are placed further apart 
at the base, and curve outwards 
and then backwards without 
any marked angulation; but 
other writers state that they are 
similar in shape to those of the 
males, but smaller and thinner. 
Male horns vary in length from 
20 to 24 inches, with a basal 
girth of 9 or 10 inches. The 
head of the takin is black, but 
the colour of the coarse hair 
of the body varies from yellowish to reddish brown mingled with black. Very 
little is known of the habits of this Tibetan ruminant, but it appears to be found 
either singly or in herds. 
UPPER PART OF SKULL AND HORNS OP MALE TAKIN. 
(From Hume, Proc . Zool . Soc ., 1887.) 
The Rocky Mountain Goat. 
Genus Haploceros. 
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The so-called goat of the Rocky Mountains (Haploceros montanus), which is 
the third and last representative of the Bovidcu inhabiting America, is another 
animal nearly allied to the serow. This creature is about the size of a large sheep, 
and averages 100 lbs. in weight. It has very short and stout legs, terminating in 
broad and blunted hoofs, pointed ears, and jet black horns, curving backwards, and 
ringed for about half their length, but smooth above this. The body is covered 
with a long coat of white hair, which is nearly straight, and falls on the sides of 
the body and limbs, but is erect along the middle of the back, and as it becomes 
longer over the withers and haunches the animal looks as though it had two humps. 
Beneath the hair there is a thick coat of wool. There are no glands below the 
eyes. In length the horns vary from 6 to 104 inches; and the skeleton is remark¬ 
able for the extreme shortness of the cannon-bones. 
The range of this animal extends through the Rocky Mountains 
Distribution. & . . . J 
from about lat. 36° in California at least as far north as lat. 62°, 
but Mr. J. Fannin believes that it will be found as far north as the mountains 
reach. The same writer observes that it “ is extremely abundant in British 
Columbia, ranging from its southern boundary to the watershed of the Arctic 
Ocean, and from the coast-line to the Rockies. Here, amid nature’s wildest scenes. 
