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one country where this type occurs. It is, of course, 

 in the Far East that we should naturally expect the 

 leopard to take on a more or less pronounced jaguar- 

 like character. 



APPENDIX II. 

 THE PERSIAN IBEX. 



Note by Mr R. LYDEKKER on the range of the Sind (or Persian) 

 ibex, published in ' The Field.' 



NEW LOCALITY FOR SIND IBEX. Major Kennion has 

 just sent to the British Museum the skulls and horns of 

 two urial and of a wild goat, or so-called Sind ibex, 

 from the Kopet Dagh, on the frontier of Persia and 

 Turkestan. So far as I know, this is a new locality for 

 the Sind ibex, and forms, indeed, a marked north-easterly 

 extension of the known range of the wild goat as a 

 whole. The latter species is thus brought within a com- 

 paratively short distance of the habitat of the Asiatic 

 ibex, while the Kopet Dagh seems to be the only locality 

 where it is found in company with true urial. The 

 single pair of horns is probably insufficient for determin- 

 ing whether the wild goat of the Kopet Dagh is distin- 

 guishable from the Sind ibex. 



[The horns which formed the subject of the above 

 note actually came from Kain, not from the frontier 

 of Persia and Turkestan. I have, however, shot the 

 "Sind" ibex in the latter locality, and have noticed no 

 peculiarity about them, other than that the horns are 

 more massive than usual due no doubt to better feed- 

 ing. AUTHOR.] 



