Nilgiri Tahr 303 



writes as follows : — " I should think, from the description given to me, 

 that these goats were in all probability shot at a great height, between 

 I 500 and 2000 feet. I have no personal knowledge of the habits of the 

 animal, but I am informed by the Arabs that it does not go in large herds, 

 but in groups of a few individuals. As there appears to be a good deal of 

 vegetation above a certain height, it seems that they rarely, it ever, come 

 down into the valleys below. I believe the same species is to be found 

 throughout the whole of the hilly part of Oman ; it occurs in Jalan Shar- 

 keeyeh and the Jebel Akhdar range, and in all its olfshoots." 



In both the British Museum specimens the horns are much worn, as 

 if by rubbing against rocks or trees. 



4. The Nilgiri Tahr — Hemitragus hvlocrius 



Kemas hylocriiis, Ogilby, Proc. Zorjl. Soc, 1837, p. 8 i ; Flower and Garson, 

 Cat. Ostt'ol. Mils. Coll. Surg. pt. ii. p. 254 (1884). 



Capra {Uex) warryato. Gray, .<fw;. Mag. Nal. Hist. ser. i, vol. x. p. 267 

 (1842). 



Capra warryato. Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Miis. p. 168 (1843). 



Hemitragus ^ivarryato. Gray, Knoivsley Menagerie^ p. 31 (1850). 



Kemas mirryato. Gray, Cat. Uttgulata Brit. Mus. p. 146 (1852), Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1872). 



Hemitragus hylocrius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxviii. p. 291 

 (1859) ; Jerdon, Mamm. Imi. p. 288 (1867) ; M'Master, Notes on Jerdons 

 Mamm. p. 117 (1870) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Imi. — Mamm. p. 5 i i (1891) ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 231 (1896). 



Capra (Hemitragus) hylocrius, Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. p. 45 i (1884). 



Capra hylocrius, P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 318 ; W. L. 

 Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 146 (1891). 



