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of limbs whitish, with broad black stripes in front, extending down 

 to the fetlocks ; base of tail chestnut-brown, tip black ; inner surface 

 of ears white, border and outer surface reddish brown. (Ruppell, 

 1835, pp. 18-19.) Height at shoulder about 38 inches; record length 

 of horns on front curve, 44 inches (Ward, 1935, p. 271) . 



P. H. G. Powell-Cotton (as quoted by Lydekker, 1908, pp. 91- 

 92) writes as follows: 



This ibex ... is said to exist only in the mountains of Simien. I shot four 

 specimens. [On June 26] I saw two large males . . . with thirteen females. 

 . . . The natives hunt these animals persistently for their flesh, skins, and 

 horns (which they use for tumblers), and now that they are so much better 

 armed, I believe in a very few years the animals will be extinct. . . . 



I found the ibex on the eastern slope of Mount Buiheat, one of the highest 

 in the Simien range. . . . 



I found numerous traces of where native shikaris had lain up to get a shot 

 at them, generally overlooking a drinking-place or a favourite shelter. 



A. M. Bailey (1932, pp. 69-74) describes the exceptional difficul- 

 ties of hunting this Ibex on the great cliffs in the mountains of Simien. 

 Several specimens were secured, and one band numbering a dozen 

 or more animals was sighted. 



Maydon writes (1933, p. 738) : 



Extremely rare and so far only located in the Semien mountains n. e. of 

 Lake Tsana in a 40 mile area. On the north side there is a huge scarp, in 

 places 14,000 feet high and dropping sheer precipices to the lowlands of 3000 

 ft. alt. On this scarp the Ibex live. They are much harried by the Abyssinians 

 for the meat and sale of the horns (to make cups, etc.). 



In 1925 Capt. G. Blaine and I saw only about a dozen herds in 6 weeks' 

 hunting and after exploring most of the scarp. . . . (Note: At present I see 

 no possible means of trying to preserve game in Abyssinia.) 



The species is accorded complete protection under the London 

 Convention of 1933. 



Sind Wild Goat; Sind Ibex 



CAPRA HIRCUS BLYTHI Lydekker 



Capra Blythi Hume, Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1874, p. 240, 1875 (nomen 



nudum) . 

 Capra hircus blythi Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, & Goats, p. 264, 1898. 



("Sind"; the type specimen is later shown by Lydekker (1913c, vol. 1, 



p. 160) to have come from the Eric Hills in Sind.) 

 FIGS.: Lydekker, 1900, pi. 4, figs. 1, la, and pp. 98, 99, figs. 13, 14; Kennion, 



1911, pis. facing pp. 34, 59 (subsp.?) ; Lydekker, 1913c, vol. 1, p. 159, fig. 39; 



Stockley, 1928, pi. facing p. 122; Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 36, 



no. 4, suppl., pi. 13, 1933; Ward, 1935, p. 274, fig. 



This Wild Goat is sadly reduced in numbers; of late years it 

 seems to have received insufficient protection from poachers. 

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