MA MM A LS OF KA SHMIR— TR UE. 



The description contained in this footnote is much more fully appli- 

 cable to Dr. Abbott's specimens than the original one, and it seems 

 probable that Vigne's sketch, on which the latter Avas founded, was 

 either incorrect in many particulars,* or represented a young nmle in 

 summer x>elage. 



Dr. Al)bott gives the following dimensions of fresh S])ecimens: 



Measurements. 



Lpimfliof head and body = 



Leiiiilli of tail to end of hairs .. 



Girth of cliest 



Girth of belly 



Depth of chest in straight line. 



aNote by Dr. Abbott: "These animals were shot in very difficult gi-ound, so tliat 

 measurements are only approximate, ]iarticvilarly the length and height." 



The si>ecimens obtained are as follows: 



20407. Male. Shigar Valley, Baltistau, January 1892. 10,000 feet. 



20408. Male, young. Shigar Valley, Baltistau, January 1892. 10,000 feet. 

 21847. Male. Shigar, Baltistan. 9,000 feet. 



CAPKA SIBIRICA, Meyer. 



Two skins of males from Baltistan represent this species. They are 

 in winter pelage and very dark. The colors of the two skins are almost 

 identical, and the markings are very sharply defined, in which latter 

 feature they appear (as well as may be learned from the descriptions 

 of various authors) to differ from ordinary specimens of C. sihirica. 

 The following is a description of one of these skins. No. 20409 : Face, 

 neck, breast, fore legs, shonldeis, the lower part of the Hanks, the 

 thighs, a line along the spine and the tail, strong umber-brown. The 

 hind legs are also brown, but have a sharply-defined, large, oblong, 

 white (or cream-colored) mark on the postero-external part of the meta- 

 tarsus, extending from the hock to the outer false hoof, and prolonged 

 between the latter and the true hoof. 



A white mane (tinged with brown at the extremities of the liairs) 

 extends along the spine from the middle of the nape to the shoulder. 

 The brown of the shoulders follows, and behind this the whole back is 

 occupied by a large elliptical white mark, or saddle (somewhat washed 

 with brown), which is bisected longitudinally by a dark-brown spinal 

 line, as already stated. Belly whitish. Ears white at the base ante- 

 riorly, brown elsewhere. The beard is blackish brown, with a few 

 soiled- white hairs at its base. A narrow white area surrounds the anal 

 region. All the hairs are white or whitish at the base — purest where 

 the extremities are merely tinged with brown, and less so where they 

 are dark. 



*Thesame remark applies to the figure published by Dr. Sclater iu 1860. (Proc. 

 Zool.Soc, London, 1860, pi. 79.) It does not agree with the diagnosis which it 

 accompanies. 



