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in the size of the beard does not appear due to season, since one of the 

 larger males seems to be in the winter and the other in the summer dress. 

 An immature male from the Caucasus living in the London Zoological 

 Gardens in 1898 presented no appreciable points of difference from the 

 Taurus examples. 



In the female the horns are much smaller and placed farther apart, 

 rising for some distance erect, and then curving slightly backwards ; their 

 transverse section being oval. The beard is wanting, and the coloration 

 paler than in the male. 



Mr. Rowland Ward records the following horn-measurements of this 

 and the next race ot the wild tjoat : — 



Tip to Ti] 

 83 



i3s 

 •4 



I4r 



•5l 



? 



Locality. 

 Sllld 



Caucasus 

 Sind 



Asia Minor 

 Sind 



Caucasus 

 (.?) Sind 



Taurus Mountains 

 Asia Minor 



In the Asian newspaper of 2nd August 1898, Mr. J. Strip, of the 

 Customs Department in Sind, gives the following account of a living 

 specimen whose horns are reported to exceed all the foregoing in length. 

 The animal was seen at Karachi on board ship, in charge of an agent of 

 Mr. C. Hagenbeck, and had been obtained from Luristan, in Persia. " My 

 measurement," writes Mr. Strip, "with the aid of Mr. Judd and the 

 owner, who helped me in holding the animal and placing the tape 



