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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1896). P/ate XXI. C/iaracters.—Build heavv and massive, with the tace short and blunt,the height at the shoulder being about 37r> inches. Horns large andmassive in adult male, widely separated on the torehead, nearly quad-rangular in section ; the broad anterior surface bearing in its basal half lowriat ribs, and its terminal half bold knots or knobs ; trom the skull thehorns diverge at an angle of about 45 degrees, and curve upwards, outwards,and backwards nearly in the same plane, except near the tips, where theyare inclined somewhat inwards. In the young male they are shorter, withknots along the whole length of the front surface. Beard confined to thechin ; long and narrow in summer ; broader in winter, when in young malesit forms only a short fringe. Summer pelage short and close, of a uniformbright chestnut-brown colour, with the lower lip, chin, the root of thebeard, the tip of the tail, and the front of the legs below the knees and hocks Wild Oxen.Sheep A Goats.Plate XXI.
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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

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