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Title: The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Hunting Hunting Hunting Mammals
Publisher: London : R. Ward
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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and14 inches. The second specimen is an exception to the general rule inrespect to the interval between the horn-tips being comparatively small. The Sind race of the wild goat is an inhabitant of the mountains of thecountry from which it takes its name, as well as those of Baluchistan. Inthe eastern districts of the last-named country it probably passes imper-ceptibly into the Persian race of Capra hircus. Whether the wild goat otAfghanistan is identical with the Persian or the Sind representative of thespecies remains for future determination. In connection with the names of the Sind wild goat in its own country,it is interesting to note that one of its titles is 7>r, which suggests affinitywith the term Tiir, applied to the wild goats of the Caucasus, and likewisewith Tahr, the well-known appellation of the Himalayan representative ofthe short-horned goats. In Sind, at any rate, the present race inhabits a more barren and less Great &i Small Game of India&lc, Plate IV.y7
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PLLbUaheci byRowloTid. WarcLLtd ■ PLATE IV la. Sind Wild Goat. 4. Pir Panjal Markhor. za. Himalayan Ibex. 5, ^a. Suleman Markhor.3. Astor Markhor. 6. Himalayan Tahr. 7. Nilgiri Tahr. The Baltistan Ibex loi wooded country than does its Persian representative, and it appears to befound at no very great elevation above the sea-level. Allowing for thisdifference, its habits are probably very similar. THE BALTISTAN IBEX (Capni sibirica wardi) Native Names of Asiatic Ibex generally.—Ski/i or Sakin (male),Dabino or Dajimo (female), Ladaki ; A.f/, Kashmiri ; Tcmgrol inKuLU ; Buz in Kunawar ; Skin, Balti The Asiatic ibex, of which the race inhabiting the Thian Shan rangeand Siberia is the typical representative (C sibirica typica), is one of thehandsomest of all the wild goats, its long, sweeping, and boldly knotted hornsbeing much thicker and more massive than those of the Arabian ibex,while they greatly exceed in length all known specimens of the horns ofthe typical, or Alpine ibex. Apar

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