Identifier: gameanimalsofind00lyde (find matches)
Title: 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,'
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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division marking the annual growths.Except in the bharal, the colour of the horns in theEastern Asiatic species is some shade of yellowish oliveor brown. In all wild species the hair is short, dense,stiff, and upright, unlike the wool of the Europeandomesticated breeds, and is frequently elongated intoa ruff on the throat. An important point of distinctionfrom oxen is to be found in the characters of the uppercheek-teeth, which have tall and narrow (instead ofbroad) crowns. Marco Polos sheep is probably slightly inferior inheight to the argali and of somewhat slighter build,while the horns of the rams are thinner and frequentlylonger. In fully adult rams the latter are long,slender, and form more than one complete circle ;typically with the front angle prominently developed,and the wrinkles on the front surface placed relativelyfar apart, but those on the lateral surfaces oftenindistinct. In the summer coat, which appears to berather longer than in the argali, the general colour of 90
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Plate IIJ 1, la. Marco Polos Sheep. 2, za. Tibetan Argali. 3. Shape.4, 4a. Urial. 5, 5a. Bharal. 91 Game Animals of India, etc. the upper-parts of old rams is light speckled brown ;the greater portion or the whole of the face, as well asthe throat, the chest, the under-parts, the buttocks,and the legs are white ; the white also extending on tothe outer surface of the thighs. A black streak runsfrom the nape of the neck to the withers. No distinctruff of long hairs is developed on the throat in thesummer coat ; but in winter, when the whole coat isconsiderably longer, such a ruff—pure white in colour—makes its appearance on the throat and chest. Atthis season, too, the fur on the back shows a moredecided rufescent tinge, especially towards the boundarydividing the dark from the light areas. In the ewesduring winter the neck is brown in front, and theremay be a dark line extending from the head to theroot of the tail, this streak being absent in summer.The horns of ewes (plate iii,

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