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Capt. Hutton on wild goat of Afghanistan, in Calcutta Journal of Nat. History, vol. 2. 1843

p. 526 — has seen his wild goat when falling bend in chin & back the fact by alighting on horns — remarks how cautious we ought to be in enclosing good of any part. — It seems female cannot so protect herself, from having smaller horns; but then she is of much quieter →

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disposition — Tschudi I am sure, say something of same thing of some Alpine animal.

Hutton, Thomas. 1842. 'Borz' of the Afghans—wild goat of Afghanistan, 'The Paseng' of authors. Calcutta Journal of Natural History 2: 521-535. Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 249, n18: "Mr. Blyth, in 'Land and Water,' March, 1867, p. 134, on the authority of Capt. Hutton and others. For the wild Pembrokeshire goats see the 'Field,' 1869, p. 150." Darwin incorrectly gave the date of Hutton's publication as 1843.

Tschudi, Friedrich von. 1856. Sketches of nature in the Alps. From the German. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. (Translation of Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt.) CUL-DAR.LIB.630 Abstract in CUL-DAR71.66-7.205.2.124.