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Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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454 THE CLOVEN-HOOFED ANIMALS. and rounded or arched on the outer side. In me- dium sized animals they often measure upward of sixteen inches and more than double this size in old individuals. Beginning from the base they sweep backward in a bold, direct curve, and in old males describe almost a semicircle. They are set close together at their bases, gradually diverge for more than half their length, and for the remainder of their length to their extremities curve boldly forward and inward. The knots or transverse rings on the horns, between which are numerous smaller ridges, number denned black-brown stripe runs along the course of the backbone to the black tail. Range and The /Egagrus is a native of an exten- Habits of the sive portion of western and centra /Egagrus. ^ Asia It ,s found Qn the southen slope of the Caucasus, and in the Taurus and other mountains of Asia Minor and Persia, and from thence far south through Afghanistan and Beluchistan. It is also found on the islands of the Mediteranean, es- pecially among those of the Grecian Archipelago, and perhaps even on the higher parts of the Greek
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THE MARKHOOR.—-The lofty mountains which enclose the famous valley of Cashmere in Asia form the favorite home of the Mark- er or Markhor. popularly, but erroneously, called the Serpent-eater. It is rather larger than the Ibex, is of a slaty "ray colo ™th a long beard of darker hue, and has strange, triangular, spiral horns which are sometimes as much as five feet long in the large males Markl oofs have bred several times in the gardens of the Zoological Society, London. (Cafirafalconeri.) MarKiioors have /rom ten to twelve in old individuals, ^Egragus Goats of both sexes have coarse beards; the remain- der of the hairy covering consists of a rather long, smooth, wiry outer fur, and a short, woolly inner coat of a medium degree of softness. The coloring is a bright reddish-gray, or a rusty hue of brownish- yellow, assuming a lighter tint upon the sides of the neck and the flanks. The breast and throat are blackish-brown, the abdomen and the inner and rear surfaces of the thighs are white. A sharply peninsula. Investigation has demonstrated, almost to a certainty, that the /Egagrus is the same animal mentioned by Homer in his description of the Cy- clopean Island: "A wooded isle, wherein do roam wild Goats unnumbered; For path of Man, or presence there, affrights them not."' The actions and habits of the /Egagrus strikingly resemble those of the Ibex. With heedless fleetness it runs along the most perilous paths or stands for hours, entirely free from vertigo, looking down into

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