142 MAMMALIA. 



Genus CAPRA. 



Capra, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 94 (1766). 



Hircus, Boddaert Elench. Anim. (1785)*. 



Aegoceros, Pallas Zoog. Ross. As., i, p. 224 (1831). 



Hemitragus, Hndgson J. A. S. B., x, p. 913 (1814). Type, C.jemlaica. 



Ibex, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 700 (1847). 



Out of the ten recognized species of wild goats no less than five 

 are found in India, all of which are represented in the Museum Col- 

 lection, of the others Capra pyrenaica and C. ibex are found in the 

 Pyrenees and Alps respectively ; Capra caucasica in the Caucasus 

 and Capra sinaitica and C. walie in Palestine, Egypt, and Abys- 

 sinia. 



Sterndale (J. Bomb. Soc, 1, p. 26) has recently described a 

 head of an ibex from the Kishengunge country to the west of 

 Kashmir, which seems to differ considerably from the ordinary C. 

 sibirica, but until a little more is known about it, it seems rash to 

 add it to the list of Indian Mammals ; Sterndale has named it 

 Capra duvergnii. 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a. Goats with long scimitar-shaped horns with knots at intervals 

 along their length, 



b. Horns with a sharp anterior edge ; the side of the horns being 

 convex ; very slight traces of the knots. 



C. aegagrus, p. 142. 



3^. Horns with a flat anterior surface with distinct knots at 

 regular intervals . . . C. sibirica, p. 143. 



a^. Goats with spirally twisted horns, the spiral being from right 

 to left, beginning from the base . C. falconeri, p. 145. 



c^. Goats with short horns never exceeding 18 inches, 



c. Horns set very parallel to one another ; the fronto-nuchal 

 edge sharp, the fronto-orbital edge rounded off so that 

 the frontal and nuchal surfaces form a continuous curve. 



C. hylocrius, p. 146. 



f2. Horns very divergent, forming about a right angle, but 

 with the tips again converging ; horns two-sided with a 

 sharp anterior edge ; fiat orbital and rounded nuchal sur- 

 face. .... C.jemlaica, p 146. 



Capra aegagrus. 



Capra aegagrus, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i, p. 193 (1788); Hutton Calc. Journ. 

 N. H., ii, p. 521, pi. xix ; id. y. A. S. B., xv, p. 161 ; Kotschy Verh. Zool. 

 Bot. Ver. Wien, iv, p. 201* ; Blasitis Saugeth. Deutsch, p. 485 ; Blyth 

 Cat., p. 176; P. L. Sclater P. Z. S., 1874, p. 89; Blanford P. Z. S., 18741 



