CAPRINE 157 



A.— Capra hircus segragrus. 



Capra segagrus, Erxlcben, Syst. Begn. Anim. vol. i, p. 260, 1777 ; 

 Gmclin, Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 193, 1788; Desmarcst, Mammalogie, 

 vol. ii, p. 488, 1822; Hiitton, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. ii, 

 p. 521, pi. xix, 1142, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, p. 161, 

 1846; Blasuis, Saugeth. Dcutschl. p. 485, 1857; Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 89, 1886, p. 315, pi. xxi, 1902, vol. ii, p. 226 ; 

 Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 248, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 vol. xliv, p. 15, 1875, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, p. 89, 1876, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Mamm. p. 502, 1891 ; Danford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1875, p. 458 ; Danford and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 276 ; 

 Stcrndale, Mamm. India, p. 446, 1884; Badde, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1887, p. 552 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 142, 

 1891 ; Satunin, Zool. Jahrb. vol. ix, p. 311, 1896, Jestestv. i 

 georg. vol. xliv, pt. 7, p. 13, 1909 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 

 p. 229, 1896 ; Camerano, Mem. Ac. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. Ivi, 

 p. 284, 1906; Miller, Cat. Mamm. W. Euroj^e Brit. Mus. p. 992, 

 1912. 



Antilope gazella, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 190, 1788, nee Capra 

 gazella, Linn. 



jEgoceros segagrus, Pallas, Zool. Bosso-Asiat. vol. i, p. 266, 1811 ; 

 Kotschy, Verh. Ver. Wieii, vol. iv, p. 201, 1854. 



Capra caucasica. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 167, 1843; Adams, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 525, nee Giildenstddt. 



Hircus gazella. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 53, 1872. 



€apra hircus var. aegagrus, Flotver and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. 

 Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 251, 1884. 



Capra hircus aegagrus, LydeA-Jcer, Wild Oxen, Sheejy, and Goats, 

 p. 260, 1888, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 151, 1901 ; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 378, 1910. 



Wild Goat : Pasang. 



Typical locality Daghestan district of the Caucasus. 



Build relatively slender, with a shoulder-height reaching 

 37 inches. Horns triangular, much compressed, with inner 

 front edge (the only one developed) sharp, keeled for some 

 distance above base, and in terminal three-fourths canying 

 several widely sundered knobs ; inner surface nearly flat, 

 outer convex, rounded behind ; tips generally convergent ; 

 faintly striated transversely throughout. Beard very long, 

 and in old animals as wide as chin ; hair on neck and shoulders 

 elongated, especially in winter, when under-fur is developed. 

 General colour in winter brownish grey, in summer reddish 

 brown, paler in old males ; under-parts and inner sides of 

 buttocks and thighs white or whitish ; face, a nucho-dorsal 

 stripe, tail, a collar on neck, expanding into a breast-plate, 

 throat, chin, beard, front of limbs (except knees), and a flank- 

 stripe blackish brown, becoming black in places ; knees, hind 



