DESCRIPTION OF AN APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES 

 OF MOUNTAIN GOAT. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F.R.S.E. 



Last autumn Mr. Vernon Shaw Kennedy of Chicago made a 

 hunting trip to Alaska, and while there obtained a skull and scalp of 

 a mountain, goat that had been shot by an Indian. The peculiar 

 horns and their very unusual shape, entirel)^ different from those of 

 the species found on the Rocky Mountains and Coast Range, together 

 with certain differences observed in the characters of the skull, 

 induces me to give this form a distinctive appellation, and I have 

 pleasure in bestowing upon it Mr. Kennedy's name. 



OREAMNUS KENNEDYI. 



Type locality. Mountains at mouth of Copper River, opposite 

 Kyak Island, Alaska. 



General character. Frontals much depressed in front of horn 

 cores; nasals narrow, flat; interparietal with nearly straight anterior 

 outline; basioccipital square; basisphenoid and presphenoid narrow, 

 contracted, and a wide palate. Horns spreading outwards from base, 

 and turning backwards at tips, ribbed for half the length, then 

 smooth for remaining portion. 



Color. White. Horns brownish black on the ribbed portion, 

 jet black on remainder. 



Skull. Superior outline highest between horn cores, descending 

 rapidly with a concave curve anteriorly, caused by the deep depres- 

 sion of the frontals in front of horn cores, and posteriorly with a con- 

 vex curve to occiput; nasals flat on top, rounded slightly at posterior 

 end, and terminating in a point anteriorly. The horn cores are con- 

 cave (scooped out) on the inside, not rounded, and the points incline 

 outward, causing a slight curve on the exterior lateral outline, and 

 permitting the wide expanse that exists at the tips of the horns. The 

 malar is long and narrow and terminates anteriorly in a somewhat 



