Persian Wild Goat 1 5 i 



The typical, or Pyrenean, race of the Spanish tur appears to be 

 restricted to the southern flanks of the range from which it takes its name. 



THE ANDALUSIAN TUR 



[Copra pyrcnaica hi spank a) 



In order to gain an adequate idea of the amount of difference between 

 the Andalusian and Pyrenean races ot the Spanish tur, a good series of 

 specimens of both is much required by the British Museum. In the 

 absence of such a series, so far as the author's personal experience goes, all 

 that can be siid is that the present race is distinguished by its inferior 

 bodily size, and by the thinner and more compressed character of the 

 horns of the old rams, in which the basal transverse ridges are said to be 

 more strongly developed. 



The home of this race is formed by the Sierra Nevada and the Sierra 

 Morena, together with the hill-ranges of Andalusia and Estremadura, its 

 great stronghold at the present day being the Sierra de Credos. 



THE PERSIAN WILD GOAT 



(Capra h'lrcus trgagrus) 



(Plate III. Fig. io) 



Since the wild goat of Persia, the Caucasus, and Asia Minor (locally 

 known either by the name of pasang or bezoar), together with the repre- 

 sentative of the same species occurring in Baluchistan and Sind, appears to 

 be the ancestral form from which the numerous breeds of domesticated 

 goats are principally derived, it is undoubtedly entitled to bear the same 



