CAPRINE 133 



(No. 13. 2. 1. 1) entered as C. c. caucasica. Also skull of 

 same (1690, ^0- Furcliaml, 1879. 



7. 11. 10. 2. Skin, mounted. Eastern Caucasus. 



Presented hjj Prince Paul Dcrnidoff, 1907. 



7. 11. 10. 1. Head, female, mounted, and body-skin. 

 Eastern Caucasus. Same history. 



93. 11. 20. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Kasbek, 

 Eastern Caucasus. By exchange, 1893. 



93. 11. 20. 2. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature. 

 The horns are distinctly ridged, as appears to be generally 

 the case in immature animals. Kasbek. Same history. 



12. 7. 14. 1-3. Three skulls, w^ith horns. Eastern 

 Caucasus. xVll are unusually fine specimens. 



Presented hy St. George lAttlcdcde, Esci., 1912. 



B.— Capra caucasica caucasica. 



Capra caucasica, Gi'ddcnstddt, in Pallas, Acta Ac. Petrop. vol. iii, 

 pt. 2, p. 273, 1779; Menzhier, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 618; 

 Satunin, Zool. Jalirh., Aht.f. Syst. vol. ix, p. 311, 1896, Privoda 

 i ochota MosJiva, vol. xxxvii, pt. 8, 1909 ; Dinnih, Zool. Beoh. 

 voh xlix, p. 338, fig. 2, 1908* ; Mat. faun.fior. Boss, vol. ix, p. 1, 

 1909 ; Camarano, Mem. Ac. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. Ivi, p. 284, 

 1906 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamin. Eurojpe, p. 240, 1910. 



^goceros ammon, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso.-Asiat. vol. i, p. 221, 1811, 

 nee Capra ammon, Linn. 



Hybrid (?) C. cylindricornis and C. caucasica, LijdeJcJcer, Wild Oxen, 

 Sheejy, and Goats, p. 251, 1898. 



Typical locality the district of ^lalka and Baksan, 

 eastward of Mount Elbruz, Central Caucasus, whence the 

 range extends to Mount Dychtau. 



Horns somewhat less bharal-like than those of C. c. eylin- 

 dricornis, being frequently long and slender, subquadrangular 

 in section, with the front surface flattened and devoid of 

 knots, but in other cases shorter, stouter, and more nearly 

 triangular in section, with incipient (or vanishing) knots ; 

 terminal curve including about one-third total length. 

 According to Dinnik,t tlie horns are to a considerable extent 

 intermediate between those of C. c. cylindrieornis and those 

 of C. severtzowi, but nearer the former than to the latter, the 



* Name printed caucasia. 

 t Op. cit. p. 338. 



