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Description.- Heavy build and short legs. The male has a profuse chin 
Deaid and a ridge of coarse dark hair along the back. The hair is coarse and 
brittle with an underfur in winter.. The scimitar-shaped horns diverge and 
curve backwards ; they are nearly triangular in section with the posterior edge 
compressed, the anterior surface having large knots at regular interval, 
remale horns much smaller. The colour is brown, old males ‘being chocolate 
with a white saddle. In winter the colour is lighter. The legs are dark and 
the beard and tail dark-brown. 
It is usually found on broken ground and is not difficult to stalk ; it is 
excessively wary, but nearly always expects danger from below. Its danger 
signal is a shrill whistle through the nostrils. ° 
Measurements. Average height at shoulder of adult male about 40 inches ; 
females a third smallei. Good horns measure 40 to 4 d inches ; female horns 
about a foot. 
Record heads .—A magnificent trophy described by Blyth (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 3840, p. 80) measured 54 ins. by 10i ins. Col. A. E. Ward tells 
of large pairs 50 by 10 and 49 by 11 inches in his Sportsmen's Guide , 
ana theie^ is an <j!ci pair in the Indian Museum of 46|- inches, measured 
by Mr. W. L.^ fiViater. Col. A. Crookshank shot one at Ilundipore, Kashmir 
which taped just 46 ins. 
