992 UNGULATA 



pyrenaica ; horns widely spreading, less compressed than in 

 victorise, the antero-internal rib less abruptly defined than in 

 pyrenaica. 



Measurements. — Adult male (from Cabrei'a) : head and body, 

 1190 ; hind foot with hoofs, 305. 



6 st. S. Spain. Purchased (Parzudaki). 55. 11. 26. 14. 



CAPRA iEGAGRUS Erxleben. 



1777. [Cap^-a] ifgagrus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., i, p. 260 (Caucasus). 



1857. Capra xgagrus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 485. 



1858. ? JBgocerus pictus Erhard, Fauna der Cycladen, Wirbelthiere, p. 32 



(Syra, Cyclades, Greece). 

 1888. ? Capra dorcas Reiclienow, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., iii, p. 594, May 31, 



1888. Island of Joura (Gyaros), Greece. 

 1899. ? Clapi-a] wgagrus var. jourcnsis Ivrea, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 



X3. 599. Nomen nudum. 

 1399. ? Capra cretensis Lorenz-Liburnau, Wissensch. Mitth. aus Bosnien 



und der Hercegovina, vi, p. 865 (Crete). 

 1910. Capra .rgagrus picta, C. xgagrus dorcas and C. ngagrus cretensis 



Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 238-239. 



Wild representatives of the domestic goat occur on several of 

 the islands of the Grecian Archipelago. Three local forms have 

 been described, the status of which is very imperfectly understood. 

 The Museum contains no material bearing on the question. 



Genus RUPICAPRA Blainville. 



1816. Rupicapra Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, p. 75, May, 

 1816. 



1840. Capella Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelthiere Europas, p. iv. 



1841. Cemas Gloger, Gomeinn. Hand- u. Hilfsbuch der Naturgesch., I, p. 153 



(not of Oken, 1816). 

 1857. Capella Blasius, Siiugethierc Deutschlands, p. 487. 



Type species. — Capra rupicapra Linnasus. 



Geographical distribution. — Mountains of the Mediterranean 

 region from the Asturias and Pyrenees eastward to the Caucasus. 



Characters. — General form less robust than in Ovis and 

 Capra ; skull with occipital region moderately bent downward, 

 not distinctly tubular j)osteriorly ; lachrymal pit absent ; nasal 

 branch of premaxillary not in contact witli nasal ; horns present 

 and well developed in both sexes, rising almost perpendicularly, 

 their tips hooked abruptly backward, downward and slightly 

 outward ; teeth essentially as in Ovis, but crowns of incisors less 

 elongated, and outer side of upper premolars with terminal ridges 

 well developed, but median ridge obsolete. 



Remarks. — Four members of the genus Rupicapra are now 

 recognized, a number which will probably be increased when 

 adecjuate material is bi-ought together. 



