Early in the spring, when grass and leaves are scarce, and again in the rutting season, are the best times for tahr shooting, as the old males then come out on open slopes.
Owing to the ground it inhabits being so covered with jungle, the pursuit of the tahr is attended with a great deal of labour and uncertainty.
The male tahr is about the same size as the ibex, but rather more heavily made.
In autumn thetahr becomes immensely fat and heavy, and his flesh is then in high favour with the natives, the rank flavour suiting their not very delicate palates.
Tahr ground indeed is about the worst walking I know, almost rivalling markhor ground; the only advantage being that, bad as it is, there are generally some bushes or grass to hold on to.
The tahr is very tenacious of life, and, even when mortally wounded, he will frequently make his escape into utterly impracticable ground.
The female tahr is very much smaller than the male; the hair is short, and the horns diminutive.
Female tahr may be frequently found on open ground, but old males hide a great deal in the thickest jungle, lying during the heat of the day under the shade of trees or overhanging rocks.
The home of the Tahr is chiefly in the elevated forest regions of the Himalayas; and it frequents almost inaccessible spots.
Or if you down't like the Tahr of London, you could go to the Zoo.
If I was you, now, I'd go and see the Tahr of London where they used to be'ead people.
I should, 'ave thought you'd go to see the Tahr reely!
In Asia it should include the great Indian rhinoceros and its allied species, the burrhel, the Nilgiri tahr and the gayal.
The ibexes, markhors, tahr and all the wild sheep eventually will be shot out by sportsmen who are "sheep crazy.
THE TAHR The tahr of the Himalayas is a very different-looking animal from the true goats, from which, among other characters, it is distinguished by the form and small size of the horns.
Their guide a sheik, Mina Tahr ben Soogo Lammo, was the seventh in regular succession.
Mina Tahr was now habited in the finest clothes that had ever been brought to Beere-Kashifery, and what to him could be so agreeable as contemplating the reflection of his own person so decked out?
Mina Tahr represented these people as the worst on the road, in every sense of the word.
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