. Les animaux de jeu de l'Inde, de la Birmanie, de la Malaisie et du Tibet; étant une nouvelle édition révisée du «grand et petit jeu de l'Inde, de la Birmanie, et du Tibet», . ps de la Pir Panjal; mais l'histoire-vie de cette chèvre reste à dire, Et tout ce que l'on peut dire à l'heure actuelle, c'est que, par rapport à l'Astorrace, le Suleman markhor est l'équivalent, jusqu'ici ashabitat est concerné, de l'urial de la chaîne de sel, en contraste avec l'urin ou le shapet Astor et Ladak. M. Hume observe que les cornes des femelles, bien que plus petites et plus petites, sont du même caractère général que celles des mâles, mais diffèrent

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. 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, ' . ps of the Pir Panjal ; but the life-historyof this goat still remains to be told, and all that canbe said at present is that, compared with the Astorrace, the Suleman markhor is the counterpart, so far ashabitat is concerned, of the urial of the Salt Range, ascontrasted with the urin or shapo ot Astor and Ladak. Mr. Hume observes that the horns of females, though smaller and slenderer, are of the same generalcharacter as those of males, but differ in two note-worthy points. First, the back or main ridge seemsmore rounded and never so sharply pinched-up as inthe male. Second, the secondary ridge, which never, I believe, shows itself in the male lower than the endof the first half-turn of the horn, in the female runsright down on to the frontal point, and is there asprominent as the main ridge behind. In this respectfemale horns are half-way between those of the males 132 The Markhor of the wild and tame goats respectively ot this generaltype. This race occurs right down the Suleman range. Fig. 22.—Head of the Su.eman Markhor, from a specimen shot by Mr. A. J.Grant in Waziristan. from Kohat to opposite Mithankot. It also occurs oncertain high hills not far from Quetta, but not farthersouth in Baluchistan proper, nor, according to the 133 Game Animals of India, etc. Afghans, north of Kandahar in Afghanistan, thoughSir O. B. St. John considered that it extended throughthe higher eastern hills inland from the Suleman. THE TAHR ( Hemitragus jemlaicus) Native Names. — Tehr or Jehr in the WesternHimalaya ; Kras and Jagla^ Kashmiri ; Jkula(male) and Tahrni (female) in Kunawar ; Esbu IN THE upper SuTLEJ VALLEY ; Ko.rt IN KuLU AND Chamba ; Jharalj Nepali. (Plate iv, fig. 6) In spite of the circumstance that its distinctness waspointed out and a generic name proposed for it byBrian Hodgson so far back as 1841, the Himalayantahr was

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