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the middle of the nape of the neck, and the hair on the middle line of the 

 back also somewhat elongated, elsewhere the pelage short and close. 

 General colour of upper-parts brownish or yellowish-fawn, probably varying 



Fig. 51. — Head ot male Arabian Ibex from Hadramut, South-Eastern Arabia. 

 (From Sclater, Proceedings Zoo/. See. 1897, p. 900.) 



somewhat according to the season of the year ; muzzle, chin, beard, 

 flanks, chest, nape-tuft, dorsal line, sides of tail, and outer side and front 

 of legs (except knees and pasterns) blackish-brown or black; inner sides 

 of thighs and buttocks, a streak on the abdomen, the inner sides and back of 

 hind-legs below the hocks, most of the corresponding surfaces of the fore-legs. 



