. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . WEST CAUCASIAN TUR. PuiU^heci b/ Rowland Woa-dbUd/. West Caucasian Tur 247 black or blackish ; a more or less distinct light stripe on the back of thelower portion of the legs, and a white spot on the fore-pasterns above thecleft ot the hoots ; no dark line on back. In winter the hair much longer andcoarser. In young males at this season the general colour is light yellowish-brown, with the same dark markin^js on the chin, tail, and lea;s, and also an. Fig. ^6.—West Caucasian Tur. (From Prince Deniidofts Ihuittng Trips to the Cauciu
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . WEST CAUCASIAN TUR. PuiU^heci b/ Rowland Woa-dbUd/. West Caucasian Tur 247 black or blackish ; a more or less distinct light stripe on the back of thelower portion of the legs, and a white spot on the fore-pasterns above thecleft ot the hoots ; no dark line on back. In winter the hair much longer andcoarser. In young males at this season the general colour is light yellowish-brown, with the same dark markin^js on the chin, tail, and lea;s, and also an. Fig. ^6.—West Caucasian Tur. (From Prince Deniidofts Ihuittng Trips to the Cauciuus.) ill-defined dark line down the middle of the back ; the margins of the lipsbeing whitish, and the white spot above the front hoofs wanting. In youngfemales more white is shown on the muzzle. Beard, except at the roots,similar in colour to the rest of the pelage ; horns and hoofs deep form of the horns, their wide separation at the base, the uniformchestnut hue of the summer pelage on the upper-parts, the white spot 248 Goats on the front pasterns, and the simihirity between the colour of the longnarrow beard and the back are characters amply sufficient to distinguishthis species from all its kindred. This splendid goat was originally described by Pallas from specimenscollected by Giildenstadt, near the head-waters ot the rivers Terek andKuban, which rise in the Central Caucasus on the north side of the chainbetween Elbruz and Dych-tau. The figured specimens comprise a female(plate xviiA.)
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