. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . Fig. 14.—A Sind Wild Goat, killed in the Lora Haman Hills, north-west ofKelat, by Sir Robert Harvey. separated knobs. On their inner side the horns arenearly flat, externally they are convex, and posteriorlyrounded off. Although occasionally directed outwards,their tips are usually inclined inwards ; throughouttheir length they are marked by faint transversestriations, and in colour they are nearly black. In thedoes (plate iv, fig id) the horns are
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . Fig. 14.—A Sind Wild Goat, killed in the Lora Haman Hills, north-west ofKelat, by Sir Robert Harvey. separated knobs. On their inner side the horns arenearly flat, externally they are convex, and posteriorlyrounded off. Although occasionally directed outwards,their tips are usually inclined inwards ; throughouttheir length they are marked by faint transversestriations, and in colour they are nearly black. In thedoes (plate iv, fig id) the horns are less compressed, no The Sind Wild Goat not longer than the head, and devoid of knobs. Thebeard of old bucks is long, especially in winter, andoccupies the whole width of the chin, but in youngerones is restricted to the middle portion. During thewinter the hair on the neck and shoulders becomesmarkedly longer than in summer ; and in the colder. Fig. 15.—skull and Horns of Sind Wild Goat, from a specimen in the coUecticof Mr. A. O. Hume. portions of its habitat the animal develops a coat ofwoolly under-fur, or pashm, at the base of the winter the general colour of the under-parts may bedescribed as some shade of brownish grey, and insummer as reddish brown ; but at all seasons very oldbucks tend to become paler. On the under surface, aswell as on the inner sides of the buttocks and thighs, 111 Game Animals of India, etc. the hair is white or whitish. Although some degreeof individual variation is observable in the extent andform of the black and white markings, it may be stated,speaking generally, that in the full-grown and sub-adult bucks the face, a broad streak from the nape ofthe neck to the root of the tail, the whole of the latter,a collar on the neck expanding below into a breastplate,the throat, the chin, the beard, the front surface of thelegs, with the exception of the knees, and a stripealong the flanks
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