West Caucasian Tur 



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A female figured in the original description by the Russian naturalist 

 Pallas,^ and assigned to this species, has small horns, is light-coloured 

 on the buttocks and the- under-parts, in which respect it resembles the 

 female of the wild goat rather than the male of the present species. 



Originally described on the evidence of specimens obtained near the 

 sources of the rivers Terek and Kuban, which rise in the Central Caucasus 





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Fig. 32. — Skull and Horns of Male West Caucasian Tur. Fom a specimen presented to the British 



Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale. 



on the northern flank of the range between Elburz and Dych-tau, this 

 species extends westwards from that district through the western half of 

 the main chain of the Caucasus. 



For its best specimens of this very striking and handsome species of 

 tur, the British Museum is indebted to Mr. St. George Littledale. A 



1 Jcta Acad. Petrop. vol. iii. pt. 2, pi. xvii. B, Fig. I (1783). 



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