1894. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



This description tallies in all essential points with tliat for male speci- 

 mens in winter pelage fiom the Sajan Mountains identified with 

 Capra sibirica by Eadde,* but scarcely with Blanford's diagnosis of 

 the species in the Fauna of British India, where it is remarked (p. 504), 

 "In winter the general color is yellowish white, tinged with brown, or 

 greyish." Not less unsatisfactory is the phrase in Sterndale's diagnosis, 

 " dirty yellowish white in winter" t Under th(» heading of varieties 

 of Capra sihiricaj however, Blanford lemarks: J 



A very dark-colored ibex is said to occur in Kaltistau, but is, according to Scully, 

 merely the old male iu wiuter vesture. Ibex from Siberia and from tlie Tliiau Slian 

 Mountains north of Kiishgar have the abdomen and the back of the carpus and tarsus 

 white, contrasting sharply with the front of the legs, which is very dark brown. 

 Col. Biddulph, to whom I am indebted for calling my attention to this character, is 

 of opinion that the Thian Shan animal is true C. sihirica and the Himalayan one 

 distinct, in whicli case the latter would take the name of C. saJcin. I have only been 

 able to examine one undoubted Himalayan skin, and cannot say if the ditlerence 

 is constant. 



Dr. Abbott gives the following dimensions of the fresh specimens: 



Measiirenients and weight. 



Length of head and body 



Tail to end of liaii'S 



Height at .shoulder (curved) 



Height .'it riunp (curved) 



Girtli of chest , 



Girth of belly 



Depth of chest in a straight line . 



Weight (about) 



« The horns of No. 21846 measure 34A inches around the curve. 



20409. Male. Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Deceml)er 19, 1891. 14,000 feet. 

 21846. Male. Braldu Valley, Baltistan, December 21, 1891. 21,000 feet. 



PTEROMYS ALBIVENTER, G r a y . 



There are three normal specimens of this flying-squirrel in the collec- 

 tion, and also two specimens of the melanistic variety. 



Male. Central Kashmir, September 15, 1891. 



Male. Lashkok Nullah, September 16, 1>;91. 



Female. Western Kaslunir, July 3, 1891. 



Male, young. Western Kashmir, July 3, 1891 (melanistic). 



Female. Central Kashmir, September 17, 1891 (melanistic). 



2_Qj afi 



354a !• 



2 012 2 

 3a493* 



20135. 

 20134. 



SCIUROPTERUS FIMBRIATUS, Gray. 

 Of this species there are four specimens, as follows: 



IHIi Male. Central Kashmir, September 1.5, 1891. 

 La.shkok Nullah, September 16, 1891. 

 Female. Lashkok Nullah, September 16, 1891. 

 Male. Central Kashmir, September 20, 1891. 



*Radde, Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Siberien, 1, 1862, p. 244. 



t Stehndale, Mammalia of India. 1884, p. 444. } Op. cU., p. 504. 



