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other turns out a little); whereas two heads under twenty 

 inches killed by me curve out most markedly at the tips, 

 though their original owners were in other respects typical 

 old Grecian ibex bucks, very grey (almost white), with a deep 

 black shoulder-stripe. 



To come now to the goats of Joura. All (with one excep- 

 tion referable to the existence of a few domestic goats on 

 the island at one period) show the distinctive colouring of C. 

 cegagrus. The old bucks — I had only had the opportunity 

 of observing two — were grey (they seemed more blue- grey 

 than those of Antimilo), the does brown with black markings. 

 But, on the other hand, the horns of the bucks are quite 

 different from those of C. cegagrus. The anterior edges face 

 one another at the skull and then twist outwards. This 

 remark applies to all I have seen living or dead. There 

 are, moreover, very marked differences in the skulls of the 

 two animals which the most casual observer must notice. 

 The horn-cores are cylindrical, or nearly so, whereas in C. 

 cegagrus they are uniform ally sabre -shaped. Lastly, the goat 

 of Joura has an alarm note, which is not the case with that 

 of Antimilo. 



The natural history collection in the Athens University 

 throws no light on this subject, the only specimen there being 

 labelled as "from Milo," but it is an Antimilo ibex. What 

 is, however, more important to our purpose, is the large 

 number of metal and plaster statuettes in the National 

 Museum. There are many of goats ; and it is certain that in 

 some cases the artist must have aimed at the wild animal with 

 which he was familiar, for stags, roes, &c., are well represented. 

 None of these statuettes in any way suggest the typical 

 Grecian ibex,^ but several — I might almost say many — show 

 the horn formation of the Joura goat. Again, on a tomb in 

 the same collection is a hunting scene, in which the wild goats 

 are certainly not C. cegagrus. This seems to me to prove 

 fairly conclusively that the ancient Greeks were familiar 

 with a wild goat which is not that of Asia. The value of 

 these antique statuettes in the Athens National Collection is 



^ I only kpow one antique (and very correct) representation of this animal, 

 and this is on a plate figured by Cesnola, and called by him "Plate with deer." 

 Strange to say, it was found in Cyprus. 



