606 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



Angus Buchanan (1921), who discovered it in 1920. At Tegguidi 

 cliff, south of Agades, "a few Barbary sheep are to be found" 

 (p. 132). In Baguezan, Asben, two animals were killed (p. 156). 

 "Four animals were seen late in morning far up the mountain side 

 of Aouderas, but we were unable to get near them. Signs of sheep 

 are plentiful enough, but, so far as I can judge at present, they are 

 very wary and wild and secretive in their movements, resting and 

 hiding in the dark mountain caves by day, and coming out to feed 

 in late evening and through the night." (Pp. 160-161.) 



"Fresh tracks of wild sheep were numerous" on a mountain in 

 the Aguellal range, Air (p. 202) . "In the country east of Baguezan 

 . . . there are Wild Sheep on the mountain faces; but . . . the 

 rugged western side of the mountain is much the better hunting- 

 ground" (p. 216). "In the Aouderas neighbourhood [Asben], I had 

 the good fortune to kill three wild sheep" (p. 225). "Those [Tar- 

 rouaji] hills ... are seldom, if ever, entered by natives, which ac- 

 counts, no doubt, for the number of Barbary Sheep which I found 

 inhabiting this range .... On this day I killed no fewer than 

 four animals, and looked upon half a dozen others within range." 

 (P. 230.) 



Pyrenean Ibex. Bouquetin des Pyrenees (Fr.). Steinbock der 

 Pyrenaen (Ger.). Cabra monies (Sp.) 



CAPRA PYRENAICA PYRENAICA Schinz 



Capra pyrenaica Schinz, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw., vol. 2, 

 p. 9, 1838. ("In den spanischen Pyrenaen, auf den Gebirgen der Sierra de 

 Randa und der Kb'nigreiches Granada" ; type locality restricted by Harper 

 (1940, p. 327) to "the vicinity of the Maladetta Pass, in Huesca, Spain.") 



Fios.: Geoffrey and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammif., pi. 396, 1833; Schinz, 1838, 

 pis. 1, 2; Lydekker, 1898c, pi. 22, and 1901, pi. 3, fig. 8; Gourdon, 1908, pi. 1, 

 fig. A; Cabrera, 1911, p. 968, fig. 195 A, and 1914, p. 312, fig. 81 A. 



Only eight or nine survivors of the Pyrenean Ibex were reported 

 in 1907, and it is probably now extinct. 



"The species, as a whole [C. pyrenaica], may be described as a 

 pale brown animal with the outer side of the limbs black, a black 

 band on the lower part of the flanks, and a short black mane, con- 

 tinued along the back by a narrow stripe. The forehead and the 

 beard are blackish or very dark brown, and the belly and inner part 

 of the limbs white. In winter pelage there is a whitish underfur, 

 quite absent in summer, when the general colour is browner and the 

 black areas become more abruptly definite. The females lack at all 

 seasons the mane and the black markings of the head and body, 

 presenting only a blackish tint on the anterior face of the limbs, 

 and it is the same with young males." (Cabrera, 1911, p. 967.) 



