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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 476

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-clad gorges just below thelimits of perpetual snow. These old fellows live apart from and higherup than the females and young bucks fromabout February until October, when theypromiscuously congregate in smaller or largerherds up to about twenty or so in number. Onbeing disturbed or even shot at,… … Tahr Ht. at shoutder, 38 in. Max. honi. iiicas. 14I in.Av, horn itteas. 12 in. among themselves during the rutting season inautumn, when numbers are said to be killed byfalls. Some idea of the ground they usuallyaffect may be formed when the writer mentionshis having shot a buck that was standing…

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