CAPRINiE 155 



S8h inches along front curve, with a girth of from 6^ to 7^, 

 and a tip-to-tip interval of from 12 to 15 J inches. 



99. 2. 12. 1. Skin, immature, mounted. Sinaitic 

 Peninsula. Presented hij Lieut. -Col. J. Marriott, 1899. 



5. 12. 12. 5. Skull, with horns. Hills east of Ain Musa, 

 Giebel el Skata. Presented hj Mrs. Anderson, 1905. 



64. 8. 17. 14. Skin and skull, wdth horns. Engedi, near 

 the Dead Sea. Presented hy Canon Tristram, 1864. 



64. 8. 17. 15. Immature skin, skull, and horns. Same 

 locality. Same donor. 



99. 11. 6. 87. Skull, with horns. Abian Mountains, east 

 of Aden ; collected by Messrs. Percival and Dodson. 



Purchased, 1899. 



5. 7. 2. 20. Skin, female, bad condition. Mountains 

 east of Karyatein, Syria ; collected by D. Carruthers, Esq. 



Purchased, 1905. 



C— Capra nubiana mengesi. 



Capra mengesi, Noacl', Zool. Anz. vol. xxi, p. 353, 1896, vol. xxii, 

 p. 13, 1897 ; see also Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 900. 



Capra sinaitica mengesi, Li/deJiker, Great and S)naU Game of Europe, 

 etc. p. 173, 1901, Game Animals of Africa, p. 90, 1908 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 376, 1910. 



Typical locality Hadramaut, south-east Arabia. 



Said to differ from sinaiticcc by the convexity of the inner 

 surface of the horns. Good horns measure from 39J to 

 50 inches along cur\^e, with a girth of from 7^ to 8 J, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval ranging from 12 to 19h inches. 



jSTo specimen in collection. 



YII. CAPEA WALIE. 



Capra walie, BilppeJI, Neue Wirheltliiere Ahyssin., Sliugeth. vol. i, 



p. 16, pi. vi, 1835 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 316 ; Both- 



schild, ibid. 1901, vol. ii, p. 281, Appendix to Powell-Cotton's 



Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 478, 1902. 

 Capra valie, Siindevall, K. Svenslca Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 95, 1846; 



Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 152, 1852. 

 Capra wall, Bichters, Big Game Shooting {Badminton Library), 



vol. ii, p. 325, 1894. 

 Capra vali, LydekJier, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 270, 1898, 



Game Animals of Africa, p. 91, 1908; Ward, Becords of Big 



Game, ed. 6, p. 374, 1910. 



