The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . can be said at present is that, com-pared with the Astor race of the species, the Suleman markhor is the exactcounterpart, so far as its habitat is concerned, of the urial of the Salt range,as contrasted with the urin, or sha, of Astor and Ladak. Mr. Hume writes that the horns of the females, though smaller andslenderer, are of the same general character as those of the males, but theydiffer in two noteworthy points. First, the back or main ridge seemsalways more rounded and never so sharply pinched up as in the , the secondary rid
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . can be said at present is that, com-pared with the Astor race of the species, the Suleman markhor is the exactcounterpart, so far as its habitat is concerned, of the urial of the Salt range,as contrasted with the urin, or sha, of Astor and Ladak. Mr. Hume writes that the horns of the females, though smaller andslenderer, are of the same general character as those of the males, but theydiffer in two noteworthy points. First, the back or main ridge seemsalways more rounded and never so sharply pinched up as in the , the secondary ridge, which never I believe shows itself in the malelower than the end of the first half turn of the horn, in the female runs The Suleman Markhor 121 right down on to the frontal point, and is there fully as prominent as themain ridge behind. In this respect, therefore, the female horns arejust half-way between those of the males of the wild and tame goatsrespectively of this general type. This race occurs right down the Suleman range from Kohat to. Fig. 21.—Head of Suleman Markhor. From Mr. A. f. Grants Waziristan specimen. opposite Mithankot. It also occurs on certain high hills not far fromQuetta, but not farther south in Baluchistan proper, nor, Sir O. B. informed me, according to the Afghans, north of Kandahar inAfghanistan, though he himself considered it likely that it extendedthrough the higher eastern hills away inland from the Suleman. 122 Great and Small Game of India, etc. THE HIMALAYAN TAHR (Hemitragus jem la iciis) Native Names.—Tehr or Jehr in the Western Himalaya ; Kras andJagla, Kashmiri ; Jhii/a (male) and Iahrni (female) in Kunawar ;Esbu in the Upper Sutlej valley ; Ka?-t in Kulu and Chamba ;Jharal, Nepali (Plate IV. Fig. 6) In spite of the circumstance that its distinctness was pointed out and aname proposed for it by the late Mr. Brian Hodgson so far back as 1841,the Himalayan tahr was for many years included by a number of naturalistsin the genus
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