. Big game hunting for boys, North America and Asia. Hunting. THE MARKHOR The Markhor is without doubt the most lordly of all the goats. The appearance of this animal is most striking. Its coat is dark and shaggy, while under its throat the hair grows a foot long and is of a beautiful creamy color. But the crowning glory is in the horns, which are truly magnificent. They are black as ebony, and branch upward in a huge spiral. These horns sometimes attain a length of five feet! The great difficulty of obtaining a specimen of this goat makes it appear as a blue ribbon to be won by hardy sports-
. Big game hunting for boys, North America and Asia. Hunting. THE MARKHOR The Markhor is without doubt the most lordly of all the goats. The appearance of this animal is most striking. Its coat is dark and shaggy, while under its throat the hair grows a foot long and is of a beautiful creamy color. But the crowning glory is in the horns, which are truly magnificent. They are black as ebony, and branch upward in a huge spiral. These horns sometimes attain a length of five feet! The great difficulty of obtaining a specimen of this goat makes it appear as a blue ribbon to be won by hardy sports- men. Curiously enough the horns of the markhor are very irregular so that the spiral form is entirely missing in many specimens, but this only serves to whet the sportsman's zeal. In Beluchistananother species of the markhor is found but it is not so fine a beast as the one of India, while in Af- ghanistan still another little-known species lives which is said to be even larger and more magnificent than the Indian variety. A hunter, desirous of obtaining specimens of this wonderful goat, gives this account of his varied experiences. Having reached Ser- inagur from the lowlands of India, he obtained coolies and mountain men and then struck away to where the Kara Korum Himalayas towered to- ward the sky. He had been directed to a certain village where he was to meet a shikari, or native. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hyde, John, 1874- [from old catalog]. New York, McLoughlin brothers
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