Cretan Wild Goat 



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completely black ; the shoulder-collar, throat, and flank-stripe, as well as 

 the tail, a streak on the buttocks, and the front of the legs, except the 

 knees, were also black or blackish, mixed here and there with white. The 

 distribution of the white areas was approximately the same as described 

 above in the Persian race. 



This description accords very well with the coloration of the buck 

 figured by Dr. Sclater. In the winter coat the ground-colour becomes 

 greyish white. It should be added that the name applied to this race by 

 Dr. von Lorenz-Liburnau is Capra cvgagrus cretensis. 



Fig. 34. — Side View of Skull and Horns of Antimilo Wild Goat. (From Lorcnz-Liburnan, 



Mt. Boitiien-Hercegovina, 1899.) 



It may also be mentioned that old females of the Cretan wild goat 

 carry a small beard, which leads the author last named to suggest that the 

 same feature may also occur in those of the Asiatic race, although it is 

 generally stated that the females are altogether beardless. Brehm in his 

 Th'icrlchcn goes, indeed, so far as to say that both sexes have well-developed 

 beards, but this is scarcely a correct statement. 



A very remarkable pair of goat horns from the Caucasus, said to be 

 those of a wild individual, are figured in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of Loiufon for 1896, p. 618. Each is twisted into a corkscrew-like 

 spiral, and they twice cross one another. The horns lack the knobs on 



