136 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



A.— Capra severtzowi severtzowi. 



Capra severtzowi, Menzbier, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 618 ; Satunin, 



Zool. Jahrh. Aht. f. Syst. vol. ix, p. 312, 1896 * ; MatscJiie, Sifzher. 



Ges. nat. Freimde, 1901, p. 27; Dinnik, Zool. Beoh. vol. xlix. 



p. 353, 1908; Ti'ouessart, Faune Mamm. Eurojie, p. 240, 1910. 

 Capra caucasica, Pallas, Acta Ac. Petrop. vol. iii, pt. 2, 1779, p. 273, 



pis. xvii A and b, 1783 ; Bilchner, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 



vol. XXXV, No. 8, p. 16, pi. ii, 1887; Ward, Records of Big Game, 



p. 227, 1896, eel. 6, p. 383, 1910 ; LydeU-er, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and 



Goats, p. 246, pi. xxi, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 



p. 141, 1901, nee Giildenstddt. 

 Capra (Ibex) severtzowi, Camerano, Mem. Ac. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, 



vol. Ivi, p. 284, 1906. 

 Capra caucasica severtzowi, LydeJiJcer, Field, vol. cxiii, p. 376, 1909 ; 



Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 383, 1910. 



* . . 



Typical locality AYestern Caucasus, in the central chain, 



to the west of Mount Elbruz, and to the south of the chain 

 of Teberda. 



Size large ; shoulder-height 38 to about 42 inches. f Horns 

 long, with relatively small knots on front surface ; beard, 

 when fully developed, of moderate length. General colour 

 in summer tending more or less to rufous, with, at least in 

 some, instances, no distinct dark dorsal stripe. General 

 colour in summer rufous brown, darker and browner on the 

 forehead, wdiere the hair is longer, wavy, and forms whorls, 

 another whorl occurring on the nose ; under-parts much the 

 same tint as back,f chest dark reddish brown in the middle ; 

 on front of legs colour darker than on the body, becoming 

 black near the hoofs, above which is a white spot. 



Dinnik lays stress on the wide interval between the 

 horns, but this appears to be dependent on age ; the 

 tip-to-tip interval in the undermentioned mounted specimen 

 (No. 92. 3. 16. 1) being only 16 inches. Fine horns measure 

 from 34 to just 40 inches along the front curve, with a girth 

 of from 11 to 12| inches, and a tip- to- tip interval ranging 

 from 15 J to 2 7f inches. 



92. 3. 16. 1. Skin, in summer coat, mounted, and 

 skeleton. Western Caucasus. 



Presented hi/ St. George Littledale, Esc[., 1893. 



* Name spelt severzoivi. 



t Forty-three inches = 109 cm., according to Dinnik. 

 X Dinnik gives the general colour as reddish grey, and that of 

 flanks and under-parts dirty white. 



