502 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



A. Horns scimitar-shaped. 



a. Horns compressed in front C. cegagi-us, p. 502. 



b. Horns of males flattened in front, with 



knobs at intervals C. sibirica, p. 503. 



B. Horns spirally twisted C.falconeri, p. 505. 



Eemains of a goat, closely allied to C. falconeri, are found in the 

 Pliocene Siwaliks, and traces of another species in the beds of 

 Hundes in Tibet. 



347. Capra segagrus. The Persian wild Goat. 



Capra segagrus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, p. 193 (1788); Hutton, Calc. 

 Jour. N. H. ii, p. 521, pi. xix ; id. J. A. S. B. xv, p. 161 ; Blyth, 

 Cat. p. 170 j Stanford, J. A. S. B. xliv, pt. 2, p. 15 ; id. Eastern 

 Persia, ii, p. 89 ; Danford, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 458 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1886, p. 315, pi. xxxi ; W. Sclater, Cat. p. 142. 

 ^Egoceros segagrus, Kotschy } Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien, iv (1854), 



p. 201. 

 Capra caucasica, Gray, List Mam. B. M. p. 167 (1843) ; Adam*, 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 525, nee Guldenstadt. 

 Capra blythi, Hume, P. A. S. B. 1874, p. 240. 



Pdsanff 3 , Boz (generally Boz-pdsang), P.; Borz, Afghan; Sair, 

 Sarah, Phashin, Pachin, <f Borz-Kuhi, Baluch ; Chunk J , Hit, Haraf $ , 

 Brahui ; Ter, Sarah, Sindhi ; Sind ibex of European sportsmen. 



Male with a beard on the chin only, and with the hair on the 

 back of the neck and on the shoulders rather longer in winter. 

 At this season a soft underfur is developed in all individuals 

 inhabiting cold climates. 



Horns of male scimitar-shaped, curved backwards, greatly coin- 

 pressed, the anterior edge forming a prominent keel, irregularly 

 notched and jagged, posterior edge rounded, the outer surface of 

 each horn more convex than the inner ; the tips generally converging 

 more or less, sometimes diverging. Horns of female much smaller, 

 erect, curved slightly backwards, farther apart at the base than in 

 the male, slightly compressed, oval in section and ribbed. 



Colour brownish grey in winter, yellowish or rufous-brown in 

 summer, lower parts and inner portion of buttocks whitish or white. 

 Older males are paler and have the face, back of the neck, shoulders, 

 a stripe along the back, the tail, chin, and throat, with the beard, 

 the front of all legs, except at the knees, and a stripe along the lower 

 part of each side joining the band of the hind leg dark brown. The 

 carpus and tarsus are all white except the dark band in front. 

 These markings vary much in distinctness. 



Dimensions. A full-grown male was 37 inches high at the 

 shoulder, muzzle to end of tail 61-5, tail with hair 5 (Hutton}. 

 Females are less, and both sexes in Lower Sind are usually small. 

 Basal length of a male skull 9-2, orbital breadth 4-8. Good horns 

 measure 40 inches round the curve, the extreme length known 

 being 52-5, with a basal girth of 7, in a specimen killed by General 

 Marston in the Karachi hill-tracts. 



