268 Goats 



the knees, and a band above each hoof, white or whitish ; horns 

 blackish. 



The most distinctive features of this species are the length and narrow 

 front surface of the horns, and the long beard. In the former respect the 

 animal stands in some degree intermediate between the wild goat and the 

 Asiatic ibex, being broadly distinguished trom the European ibex by the 

 much greater length of the beard. 



Mr. Rowland Ward records the following dimensions of horns of this 

 goat :— 



This and the three following species may properly be recognised as 

 ibex, although that name is often also applied to the Spanish tur. They 

 are all characterised by the scimitar-shaped horns, of which the front 

 surface is more or less broad and carries a series of knot-like widely- 

 separated transverse ridges. In the relative narrowness of this front surfice 

 the present species approximates, however, to the wild goat ; and all the 

 members of the genus are so closely connected that, as already mentioned, 

 it appears impossible to divide them into sub-generic groups distinguished 

 by well-marked and sharply-defined characters. 



