284 Goats 



from the Parapomisus Mountains of Afghanistan is doubtless this race, 

 whose southern and south-eastern limits are probably defined by the 

 Indus. 



/;. Himalayan Race — Capra sibirica sacin 



Capra ihex, Hodgson, Joiirn. As. Soc. Bengal., vol. x. p. 913 (1841), xi. 

 p. 283 (1841), nee Linn. 1766. 



Capra sakeen., Blyth, Joi/rn. As. Soc. Bengal., vol. xi. p. 283 (1841). 



Capra ibex hemalayanus., Hodgson, Calcutta 'Joitrn. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. 

 p. 414 (1842). 



/Egoceros skyn., Wagner, Schreber's Sangethiere, vol. iv. p. 491 (1844). 



Capra himalayana, Schinz, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii. p. 463 (1845) ; Gray, 

 Knowsley Menagerie., p. T,i, (1850), Cat. Ungiilata Brit. Mas. p. 150 (1852) ; 

 Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 523. 



IIh'x sakin., Hodgson, "Journ. As. Soc. Bengal., vol. xvi. p. 700 (1847). 



Capra sihirica, Jerdon, Mamm. India., p. 292 (1867) ; Kinloch, Large 

 Game Shooting, pt. i. p. 30 (1869) ; Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 444 (1884) ; 

 Thomas, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, vol. v. p. 64 (1889). 



Capra skyn, Severtzoff, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 334 

 (1878) ; Prezewalski, Peters. Mittli. Erzb. vol. xii. p. 5 (1878). 



Capra sakin, Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. — Mamm. p. 504 (1891). 



Characters. — Apparently distinguished from the typical race by the 

 legs being uniformly dark brown throughout, and also by the darker 

 under-parts. 



With the hundreds of Himalayan ibex yearly shot by English sports- 

 men, it is somewhat surprising to find Mr. Blanford remarking that he had 

 only been able to examine one undoubted skin trom the Himalaya, and 

 was therefore unable to decide whether the dilference in the coloration of 

 the legs formed a constant distinction between the Piimalayan and Thian 

 Shan forms. Although years ago I have seen scores of skins, I am at the 



