PYRENEAN IBEX. 



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PYRENEAN IBEX (Capra pyrenaica). 



Habitat — Pyrenees, High ranges of Central Spain, Andalusia 



and Portugal. 



* Capra Hispanica. 



t ./Egoceros pyrenaica. 



ARABIAN IBEX (Capra sinaitica). 



[Rev. H. B. Tristram on the Mammals of Palestine, P.Z.S., 1866, p. 85.] 



The Syrian Ibex, or Bedeb of the Arabs. Only found in Palestine in 

 the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea, especially about Engedi, Very 

 abundant on the east side in the mountains of Moab, and still more 

 so throughout the Sinaitic peninsula. It formerly extended to the 

 Lebanon, where its teeth have been found in cave-breccia by ourselves 

 and by M. Lartet. (See Bull, Sve. Gcol. de France, 22, p. 543.) Quite 

 as wild, nimble and wary as the Ibex of the Alps. It drops its kid in 

 March or April, and has but one at a birth. Several young ones were 

 brought to us and reared for some time by hand. The horns of the 

 female are much smaller than those of the male. The flesh is excellent, 

 far superior to that of the Gazelle. The horns are subquadrangular, 

 sharply emarginated at the inner anterior angle, and with from twenty to 

 twenty-four (in fully adult specimens) bold ridges on the front face only. 



Habitat — Upper Egypt, Sinaitic Peninsula and Palestine. 



