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fore -legs also white between the lateral hoofs and the knees ; under- 

 parts whitish. 



This ibex is represented, in addition to skulls and unmounted skins, by 

 three mounted males in the British Museum, two of which are from the 

 Thian Shan, while the third is from the Altai, the latter locality being 

 apparently the one from which the species was first described. They are 

 all in the winter pelage, which is of the yellowish-white colour tinged 

 with brown or grayish usually seen in specimens shot by English sports- 

 men, most or all of which are killed in the late spring. 



From Baltistan a very dark-coloured ibex has been reported, but was 

 considered by Dr. Scully to be merely the old male in winter pelage. 

 Two skins from the same locality haye been subsequently described by 

 Mr. F. W. True, who writes as follows: — "They are in winter pelage 

 and yery dark. The colours of the two skins are almost identical, and the 

 markings are very sharply defined, in which latter feature they appear to 

 difter from ordinary specimens of C .f/'/wvtv/." The following is a description 

 of one of these skins : — " Face, neck, breast, fore-legs, shoulders, the lovyer 

 part of the flanks, the thighs, a line along the spine, and the tail, strong 

 umber-brown. The hind-legs are also brown, but haye a sharply-defined, 

 large, oblong, white (or cream-coloured) mark on the postero-external 

 part of the metatarsus, extending from the hock to the outer false hoof, 

 and prolonged betvyeen the latter and the true hoof. A white mane 

 (tinged with brown at the extremities of the hairs) extends along the 

 spine from the middle of the nape to the shoulders. The brovyn of the 

 shoulders follows, and behind this the whole back is occupied by a large 

 elliptical white mark, or saddle (somewhat washed with brown), which is 

 bisected longitudinally by a dark brown spinal line, as already stated. 

 Belly whitish ; ears white at the base anteriorly, brown elsewhere. The 

 beard is blackish-brown, with a few soiled white hairs at its base. A 

 narrow white area surrounds the anal retrion. All the hairs are \yhite or 



