MAMMALIA. 149 
4. CAPRA. 
Nose ovine, hairy, without any muffle. Horns (of male) very 
large, elongate, recurved, curved nearly on the same plane; base 
subquadrangular, broad, flattened, and with broad cross ribs in 
front ; outer side rather compressed and rounded; tip com- 
pressed, broad; of female smaller. Hair of forehead elongate, 
whorled. Crumen and inguinal pore none. Chin bearded. 
Ibex, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846, 230; List Osteol. B. M. 
59 
Capra, § 1. Ibex, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 
AKgoceros, sp., Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 228. 
Capra, sect. 8, Sundevall, Pecora, 93. 
* Ears densely villose. 
i. Capra Ipex. The Ipex or STEINBOCK. 
Ears small, acute, not one-fourth the length of the head. 
“Horns of the male very strong, thick, subquadrangular, trans- 
versely rugose, flattish and nodose in front; of female small, 
compressed, slightly nodose. Fur in summer short, adpressed, 
without any under coat, ashy grey. In winter, elongate, fulvous 
brown, with long, dense, intermixed under-fur. Beard short, 
brown, in summer wanting.” —Schinz. 
Capra Ibex (part.), Linn. S. N. i. 95; Gmelin, S. N.1i. 196; 
Meyer, Zool. Ann. i. 397; Desm. Mam. 480; Fischer, Syn. 
483, 647; H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 300. t., v. 868; Griffith, A. 
K. v. t.; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 167; Schinz, Nov. Mem. 
Soc. Helv. ii. t. 2, horns, 1838. 
Capra alpina, Girtanner, Journ. Phys. xxvii. 224. 
Ibex alpinus, Gray, List Osteol. B. M. 59. 
Ibex, Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 53; Gesner, Quad. 351, fig.; Brisson, 
R. A. 64; Shaw, Mus. Lever. ii. 105. t. 2; Zool. ii. 364. 
t. 198; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 667, 668, 669, bad. 
Wild Goat, Penn. Syn. 13. 
Bouquetin, Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 13, 14; Cuvier, R. A. i. 266; 
Mam. Lithog. t. 
Knorr, Delic. ui. t. K. 5. f. 2. 
Capricornis, Gesner, Quad. 1099. fig. 
Hab. Europe, Alps. 
Male. Europe, Alps. Presented by Mrs. A. G. Campbell. 
Male. Europe, Alps. Presented by Messrs Murray and Brocke- 
don. 
Male. Europe, Alps. 
