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Identifier: wildoxensheepgoa00lyde (find matches)
Title: Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Bison Muskox Mountain sheep Goats Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, R. Ward
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rndale, Manini. Ind. p. 441 (1884). Hircus falconeri. Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1872), Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 126 (1873). Plate XXV. Characters.—Build heavv and massive, height at shoulder varying from^5 to 41 inches. Hair on the body and legs short in summer, long andsilky in winter, with little or no under-fur ; in old males at all seasons aprofuse beard, extending from the chin down the throat to the chest, andupwards along the sides of the neck to the base of the ears and nape ; inyoung males and females the beard short and restricted to the chin. Hornsof males much compressed, situated close together, and twisted into a spiral,with the front keel turning at first in an outward direction ; in young indi-viduals sharply angulated both in front and behind, but the front of thebase becoming rounded with increasing age; the form ol the spiral varyingfrom that of a very open corkscrew to that of an ordinary screw, of which Wild Oxen,Sheep,&Goats.Plate XXY.
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ASTOR MARKHOR. Fuhllshed, hy Rowland WardLU Markhor 287 the two keels form the worm ; in females the horns short, compressed, andspiral. General colour in winter gray, in summer rich reddish-brown, butin old males whitish throughout ; the long hairs of the winter pelage whiteat the base, with brown tips ; the under-parts lighter than the back, insome cases whitish ; a dark stripe on the front of the legs from the kneesand hocks to the fetlocks ; beard of males black in front, light gray behind ;tail dark brown ; and in young animals the general colour uniformly grayish-brown, with a dark stripe down the middle of the back, and, it is said, thebeard wholly black. Horns deep black. The markhor (literally snake-eater) is entitled to rank as one of thehandsomest, if not actually the handsomest, of all the wild goats. Thehorns indicate four more or less distinct types, the extreme modifications ofwhich differ much more widely from one another than do the horns ofmany species ; but since al

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