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anterior surface, are in some respects intermediate between the former and 

 those of C. cylindricornh. It was suggested to their present owner by the 

 natives of the district that they indicated a hybrid between the two well- 

 estabHshed species ; and I am at present unable to suggest any more 

 probable explanation ot the ditiiculty. That analogous hybrids do now and 



Fig. \%. — Head ot male West Caucasian Tur. (From Prince DemidotJ"'s 

 Hunting Trips in the Cuiiciisus). 



again occur naturally is proved by the well-known case of Ovis brookci in 

 Zanskar. 



The circumstance that these peculiar horns are in some degree inter- 

 mediate between those of C. cylimlricornis and the typical citucasica, together 

 with the fact that they come from the same locality, suggests that they 

 belong to the same kind of animal as the one to which the latter name is 

 restricted by Dr. Menzbier. It is true that Dr. Menzbier speaks of knots 

 on the front of his specimens, which are wanting in Mr. Littledale's 



