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being solely due to their greater age. Lastly, I have had an opportunity 

 of seeing several mounted heads of various ages in the collection ot Prince 

 Demidoff. 



Comparing the horns of the two adult males obtained trom the 

 Western Caucasus by Mr. Littledale with the figure of the adult male 



Fig. 47. — Skull and Horns of male West Caucasian Tiir. From a specimen shot by 

 Mr. St. George Littledale. 



head from the Central Caucasus figured by Pallas, I can detect no variation 

 except such as is due to difference of age, the beard in the original figure 

 being ot the long and narrow type. And since I have shown the alleged 

 wide interval between the tips of its horns to be solely due to immaturity, 

 the so-called C sfvcrtznc/', so fir as its horns are concerned, is evidently 

 inseparable from C. cdiicdsica of Pallas. 



With regard to the beard, it is first necessarv to show that the 



