^54 



Goats 



Mgoceros pyreimica^ Gray, Cat. Ungiilata Brit. Miis. p. 147 (1852), 

 Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1872). 



lih'x pyrcnaieiis, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamni. vol. ii. p. 188 (1855); 

 Graells, Mem. Ac. Madrid., vol. xvii. p. 353 (1897). 



Ammotragiis ij) pyrenaicus, Nathusius, Zoo/. Anzeigcr., 1888, p. t^-},]^. 



Plate XXII. 

 Characters. — Build lighter and face larger and narrower than in either 



Fi(.. 4.9. — Side view of licad of adult male Spanish Tiir with the beard tully developed. 



of the Caucasian species ; the height at the shoulder reaching to :?2 inches. 

 Horns rising close together on the skull ; triangular, with a sharp inner 

 edge, and the front surface irregularly knobbed towards the extremity 

 (where it becomes posterior in position), at base ridged ; the form an 

 open semi-spiral, the direction being at first upwards and outwards, but 



