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EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



The restricted range of this Ibex in Ethiopia, and the persecution 

 to which it has been long subjected by the natives, render it of 

 particular concern to conservationists. 



FIG. 56. Abyssinian Ibex (Capra walie). From photograph, Field Museum 



of Natural History. 



It differs from other Ibexes by its strongly convex facial profile 

 and by a conical hump between the horn bases ; horns with two right 

 angles in front, but rounded behind; a short beard on chin. Front 

 and upper side of head, neck, and back chestnut-brown; nose, a 

 streak between eye and ear, and sides of neck and body reddish 

 umber-brown; area beneath eye and ear, chin, throat, chest, inner 

 side of the upper half of the legs, and posterior half of the belly 

 dirty white; outer side of limbs and flanks ashy gray; lower parts 



