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 Cabrera) : head and body, 

 1190 ; hind foot with hoofs, 305. 



6 st. S. Spain. Purchased (Parzudaki). 55. 11. 2G. 14. 



CAPRA .SGAGRUS Erxleben. 



1777. [Capra] xgagrus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., i, p. 260 (Caucasus). 



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



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



(Syra, Cyclades, Greece). 

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



1888. Island of Joura (Gyaros), Greece. 

 1899. ? C[apra] xgagrus var. jourensis Ivrea, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 



p. 599. Nomen nudum. 

 1S99. ? Capra cretensis Lorenz-Liburnau, Wissensch. Mitth. aus Bosnien 



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

 1910. Capra legagrus picta, C. xgagrus dorcas and C. legagrus cretetisis 



Trouessart, Farms Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 288-239. 



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. Rtipicap^-a Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, p. 75, IMay, 

 1816. 



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



1841. Cemas Gloger, Gemeinn. Hand- u. Hilfsbuch der Naturgesch., i, p. 153 



(not of Oken, 1816). 

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



Type species. — Capra rupicapra Linnaeus. 



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 posteriorly ; lachrymal pit absent ; nasal 

 branch of premaxillary not in contact with 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. 



Bemarks. — Four members of the genus Rupicapra are now 

 recognized, a number which will probably be increased when, 

 adequate material is brought together. 



