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tuaries as 'no man's land,' where he could hunt the ibex himself 

 or drive them into a more profitable area." (Brocklehurst, 1933, 

 p. 740.) 



De Beaux writes (1935, pp. 7-10) that two specimens were killed 

 in Eritrea in 1932 by Capt. Arnoldo Bizzarri. The only herd that 

 he found (composed of 8 individuals) was in the mountains near 

 the valley of Sciancolet, on the Eritrean-Sudan boundary. The 

 specimens proved to be Capra nubiana, and northeastern Eritrea is 

 definitely the present southeastern limit of this animal. The Italian 

 Minister of Colonies instructed the Governor of Eritrea to take 

 measures for the preservation of the Ibex in that colony. 



The causes of depletion in Egypt are injudicious hunting and 

 reduced rainfall. The skins and horns have been sold, and the meat 

 has been used for food. Shooting is prohibited by Frontiers Depart- 

 ment Decision of 6.V.1930. (Ministry of Agriculture and Zoological 

 Garden, Cairo, in litt., January, 1937.) 



"The Nubian Ibex . . . also in our judgment calls for attention. 

 The type locality of this species is given as Nubia and its range 

 includes the high ground of Upper Egypt and the mountainous 

 region of the Red Sea Littoral. This species, both on account of 

 its rarity and interest, as fully deserves protection as the Abyssinian 

 Ibex, . . . which already figures in Class A of the Annex. We hope 

 that before the next Conference, the Egyptian Government will give 

 consideration to the question of including also the Nubian Ibex in 

 that Class of the Annex." (Hemming et al., 1938, pp. 12-13.) 



Sinaitic Ibex. Sinai-Steinbock (Ger.) 



CAPRA NUBIANA SINAITICA Hemprich and Ehrenberg 



Capra sinaitica Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symbolae Physicae, Mamm., decas 

 2, pi. 18, 1833. ("Ex Aegypto superiore et e montibus sinaiticis"; type 

 locality later restricted (op. cit., p. kk and p. following nn, 1833) to "mon- 

 tem Sinai," and perhaps more particularly to "Wadi Hebran," in the 

 southwestern part of the Sinai Peninsula.) 



FIGS.: Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833, pi. 18; Tristram, 1884, pi. 2; Bryden, 

 1899, p. 130, fig. 21; Anderson and de Winton, 1902, pi. 58 (cj. Flower, 

 1932, p. 436); Beddard, 1902, p. 325, fig. 175; Carruthers, 1915a, pi. 8, 

 upper fig. 



Although this Ibex was formerly common, conditions since World 

 War I have affected it adversely, and it stands much in need of 

 better protection. 



Color yellowish dusky; hair short; female beardless; adult male 

 with long, graceful horns, extending in a curve exceeding a semi- 

 circle and almost in the same plane; horns quadrangular at base, 

 triangular in middle, two-sided at tip, and furnished with convex 

 knobs; legs blackish, much variegated with white (Hemprich and 



