989 



CAPRA IBEX Linnseus. 



1758. [Capra] ibex Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, lOtli ed., p. 68. 



1786, Capra alpina Girtanner, Observ. et Mem. sur la Phys., I'Hist. Nat. 



et les Arts, xxviii, p. 224, March, 1786. 

 1857. Capra ibex Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 475. 

 1906. I[bex'] ibex Camerano, Mem. Accad. Reale Sci. Nat., Torino 1905- 



1906, p. 284. 

 1910. Capra ibex Trouessart, Faune IMamm. d'Europe, p. 236. 

 1912. Capra ibex graicus Matschie, Deutsche Jagu. Zeitung, lix, no. 8, 

 April, 1912. 



Tj/pe locality. — Swiss Alps. 



GeograpMcal distribution. — Formerly throughout the Alps ; 

 now confined to a few localities in Piedmont, Italy. 



Diagnosis. — Size larger than in ordinary domestic goats (head 

 and body of males about 1350 mm.) ; general colour a dusky grey, 

 darker on chin and upper part of throat and on belly ; legs 

 blackish below and along anterior surface above, this dark area 

 not noticeably contrasted or sharply defined ; tail like body at 

 base, blackish at tip ; horns very large, curved backward in a 

 single plane, conspicuously cross-ribbed on anterior surface, but 

 antero-internal border not elevated. 



Measurements. — Adult male (mounted) : head and body, 1350 ; 

 tail, 155 ; hind foot, 310 ; ear, 85 ; height at shoulder, 760. 

 Adult female (skin) : head and body, 1000 ; tail, 30; hind foot, 

 290. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 996.* 



Specimens examined. — Fifteen (B.M., U.S.N.M., and Turin). 



S st. Italian side of Monte Purchased (Rowland 97. 12. 11. 1. 



Rosa. Ward). 



5 St. Alps. Purchased (Parreys). 41. 596. 



6 St. Alps. Mrs. A. G. Campbell 650. 2. 



6 skull. Alps. Messrs. Murray and 1835. 



Brockedon (p). 



6 horns. Chamonix. Purchased (Faery). 45. 12. 16. 1. 



2 6 horns. 650. a. b. 



? skull. Purchased (Warwick). 57. 3. 18. 2. 



CAPRA PYRENAICA Schinz. 

 (Synonymy under subspecies.) 



Geographical distribution. — Formerly throughout the moun- 

 tainous districts of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees. 

 Now extinct except in isolated colonies on the south side of the 



* In the elaborate Tables of cranial measurements published by 

 Camerano, Ricerche intorno alio Stambecco delle Alpi (Mem. Accad. Reale 

 Sci. Nat., Torino, 2nd ser., lv, pp. 283-358, 1906; ibid., lvi, pp. 1-70, 

 1907), there are relatively few dimensions given which are comparable with 

 those here used. Twenty males, presumably adult, furnish the following 

 averages and extremes : basilar length, 252 • 1 (242-265) ; nasal, 92 • 1 (84-100) ; 

 maxillary tooth-row, 68*1 (62-76). 



