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consequently the goat of Jouni had not, as was generally assumed, heen so 

 produced, but was, as a matter of fact, a local variety of the wild goat, tor 

 which the name C. agagrus^ \':\y. joinriisls, was suggested." 



If this means that the goat for which Dr. Reichenow proposed the name 

 Ciipra doi-cas is really an indigenous wild race (which, as stated above, is 

 almost certainly not the case), it should be known by that name, and there 

 is consequently no justification tor the substitution of the title joarcnsis. If, 

 on the other hand, the latter term is intended to apply to another type ot 

 goat inhabiting Joura, then the absence of any definition renders it a 

 mere noiiicn JiiiJum. 



Quite apart from the question whether the goats of Crete and Antimilo 

 are entitled to rank as truly wild races, they undoubtedly afford excellent 

 sport. 



THE ALPINE IBEX, OR STEINBOCK 



(Cliipra /hex) 

 (Plate III. Fig. 9) 



Although steinbock is the distinctive title of the wild goat of the 

 Alps in the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland, its application by tlie 

 Boers, in the form of steinbok, to a small South African antelope has led to 

 the abandonment in English zoological literature of this term in favour 

 ot the Latin designation ibex ; the French name bouquetin being never 

 employed in this country. 



The Alpine ibex is the typical representative of a small group of wild 

 goats characterised by the horns of the bucks being generally sub-triangular 

 in section, with two front angles or keels between which is a fiat 

 surface marked by a number of bold transverse knobs or knots. By the 

 older naturalists, as the reader may see by referring to Mutton's translation 



