. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . , judging from the slight development of the beard and thelength of hair on the head and body, seems to be an immature male in thewinter pelage. Heads of males with the full winter beard are figured byMessrs. Chapman and Buck in Wild Spain. In the form and character of the horns the Spanish wild goat is clearlyintermediate between the tur of the Caucasus and the true ibex, althoughnearer to the former than to the latter. In its parti-coloured coat thespecies is, however, more like the Persian wild goat and some of the ibex ;but it m
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . , judging from the slight development of the beard and thelength of hair on the head and body, seems to be an immature male in thewinter pelage. Heads of males with the full winter beard are figured byMessrs. Chapman and Buck in Wild Spain. In the form and character of the horns the Spanish wild goat is clearlyintermediate between the tur of the Caucasus and the true ibex, althoughnearer to the former than to the latter. In its parti-coloured coat thespecies is, however, more like the Persian wild goat and some of the ibex ;but it may best be called a tur rather than an ibex. The under-mentioned are some of the largest horn-measurements oi theSpanish tur given in Mr. Rowland Wards book:— 256 Goats Length alongOuter Curve. BasalCircumference. Tip toTip. Locality. 31 H ? Pyrenees 3oi 9i ? Spain 29I 8i 23i Almeira 28 9* 23| Spain 27I 9 25 ^> 27i I of i9i Pyrenees 25f H i6§ Spain 24i 10 14 \^il dArras 22 7f H Spain Hdbits.—The habits of this tur, the cabra montes of the Spaniards,. Fig. 50.—Side view of Head ot male Spanish Tur with the heard reduced to a tutt.(Rowland Ward, Rccoiuis of Big, Cir/ic.) have been well described by Messrs Chapman and Buck in IJiU Spain, andby Mr. E. N. Buxton in Short Stalks, although in one respect there is anapparent discrepancy between the two accounts. Mr. Buxton, for instance,states that the Spanish tur, unlike the ibex of the Alps, takes full advantageof the covert afforded by dense scrub, and suggests that to this habit is duethe incurving of the points of the horns which torms such a characteristicfeature of the present species. On the other hand, Messrs. Chapman andBuck, in the passage cited under the heading of the Andalusian race, speakof the rams frequenting the highest mountain peaks at elevations of some Pyrenean Tur 257 10,000 feet. Possibly the apparent discrepancy is due to the differentseasons at which the observations were made. According to the gener
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