990 UNGULATA 



Pyrenees, in the Serra do Gerez, Portugal, the Sierra de Gredos, 

 Sierra Morena, Sierra de Ronda, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Martes, 

 and Sierra de Card 6, Spain.* 



Diagnosis. — Horns curved upward, outward and backward, 

 distinctly compressed laterally, the anterior sui'face without 

 evident transverse ridges, the antero-external border raised and 

 rib-like ; colour paler than in Capra ibex, and dark areas sharply 

 defined. f 



HemarJis. — Four local races of Capra pjyrenaica are recognized 

 by Cabrera in his recent paper on " The Subspecies of the Spanish 

 Ibex." I have been unable to form any personal opinion as to 

 the validity of these forms. The following brief synopsis is based 

 entirely on the accounts published by Cabrera and Bocage. 



Capra pyrexaica pyrenaica Schinz. 



1838. Capra pyrenaica Schinz, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Gesellsch. 



Naturwiss., Neuchatel, ii, p. 9. 

 1857. Capra pyrenaica Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 480. 



1910. Capra pyrenaica Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 237. 



1911. Cap^-a pyrenaica pyrenaica Cabrera, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 966, 



December, 1911. 



Tijpje locality. — Spanish Pyrenees. 



Geographical distribution. — Formerly the Pyrenees and eastern 

 part of Cantabrian chain. Now restricted to the region of 

 Mt. Perdido, Huesca, Spain. 



Diagnosis. — Dark markings maximum for the species, the 

 lateral stripe broad, the black of withers extending downward 

 nearly or quite to that of upper part of leg ; horns widely 

 spreading, the rib on antero-internal border abruptly defined. 



i St. &? skull. Pyrenees. Purchased (Boubee). 48. 2. 5. 4-5. 



9 head st. Spain. Capt. J. Marriott (c&p). 0. 10. 28. 1. 



6 St. (imm.). Sir R. Owen (p). 50. 9. 4. 1. 



1 yg. Zoological Society. 68. 9. 12. 12. 



* For map of present and past distribution, see Cabrera, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, London, 1911, p. 965, December, 1911. 



t " The s]pecies, as a whole, may be described as a pale brown animal 

 with the outer side of the limbs black, a black band on the lower part of 

 the flanks, and a short black mane, continued along the back by a narrow 

 stripe. The forehead and the beard are blackish or very dark brown, and 

 the belly and inner part of the limbs white. In winter jjelage there is a 

 whitish underfur, quite absent in summer, when the ground colour is 

 browner and the black areas become more abruptly definite. The females 

 lack at all seasons the mane and the black markings of the head and body, 

 presenting only a blackish tint on the anterior face of the limbs, and it is 

 the same with the young males, in which the black areas appear in the 

 second or third year, becoming larger and darker as the animal grows 

 older " (Cabrera, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1911, p. 967, December, 1911). 



