656 CLASS xvii. 



Lachrymal sinuses small or none. A large black naked region 

 produced from the septum of the nose (RMnarium}. Tail short. 

 Mammae four. (Habit hircine.) 



Sp. Hemitragus sumatrensis, Antilope sumatrensis SHAW, F. Cuv. Mammif. 

 PI. 27, Antilope gored HAEDW. ; Nepaul, &c. 



Note. Hemitragus HODG. to be inserted here, is scarcely a distinct 

 genus. Nostrils distant. Horns approximate, deflected, sub-incurved, 

 thick at the base, undulately ringed, smooth at the tip. Sp. Hemitragus 

 iharal, Capra iharal HODGSON Asiat. Researches, xvm. 2, p. 129 (cited by 

 WAGNER), SCHBEB. Saugth. Tab, 281 D; Hemitragus hylocrius, Kemas 

 hylocrius OGILBY, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 81. 



Capra L. (in part). Horns in both sexes, flat on the inside, 

 curved, annulate, often knotted. Lachrymal sinuses none. Hoofs 

 compressed, spurious hoofs small, rounded. Tail very short. 

 Mammae two. Throat bearded mostly in both sexes, sometimes 

 in males only. (Region between the eyes and nostrils flat or 

 concave.) 



Sp. Capra Ibex L., BUFF. xn. Tab. 13 (Tab. 14 Horns), SCHREB. Saugth. 

 Tab. 281 C; der Steinbock, le JBouquetin ; with large, prominently knotted 

 horns, colour greyish-red, no beard, but only somewhat longer hair under 

 the chin; on the Swiss Alps; Capra siberica EHRENB., ^Eyoceros ibex 

 PALL., Spic. Zool. xi. Tab. 3; Capra beden FORSK., Capra sinaitica 

 EHRENB., Symb. physicce, Tab. 18, Cuv. JR. Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PI. 93, 

 fig. i, SCHREB. 281 cc, &c. Upper Egypt, &c. 



The goats live in troops on the mountains. Their senses are very acute. 

 The domestic goat, Capra Hircus L., has a sharp edge at the inside of the 

 horns, which is irregularly incised and sometimes very broad. Of this species 

 there are many varieties. To this goat is similar Capra JEgagrus GMEL., 

 the Paseng of the Caucasian mountains and Persia, Menag. du Mus. n. 

 pp. 177 193, GUERIN Iconogr., Mammif. PI. 44 bis, fig. 2, Diet. univ. 

 d'Hist. nat., Mammif. PI. 13 (PALL. Spic. Zool. xi. pp. 43 46, Tab. 5, 

 figs. 2, 3, horns). 



To the genus Capra and not to the Antilopes, as I think (with SUNDE- 

 VALL), ought to be referred Capra montana HARLAN, Antilope lanigera 

 HAM. SMITH, Linn. Trans, xm. i, pp. 38 40, Tab. iv., Capra americana 

 RICHARDSON, Faun. bor. Am. i. Tab. 22, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 287 D. 

 This species has small horns, turned backwards and slightly curved, and 

 a white fleece. It forms the genus Haplocerus of HAM. SMITH. 



Ovis L. Horns in both sexes or in males only, striated wavily, 

 transverse at the base, turned backward, with the tip mostly again 

 bent forward. Hoofs compressed. Mammae two. Chin beardless. 

 Region between the eyes and nostrils convex. 



