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venturing to publish this contribution I went for information to 

 the British Museum, considering that the nomenclature used by 

 that Museum should be the standard for British sportsmen. At 

 the Museum I learned that on this particular subject even our 

 savants are in some doubt, whilst in Russia the leading 

 naturalists of St. Petersburg and Moscow disagree. However, 

 Mr. Thomas courteously supplied me with the following defi- 

 nitions, which may be sufficient for present purposes. 



Capra cylindricornis^ or pallasi, is the name properly ap- 

 plied to the Caucasian burrhel, a beast with smooth cylindrical 

 horns ; C. caucasica is applied to the Caucasian ibex, a beast 

 with horns recurved and modulated as in the true ibex ; while 

 C. cegagrus is an animal with horns of the common goat t)rpe, 

 with sharp front edges irregularly modulated. The best horn 

 measurements of these three beasts known to me are : 



These measurements have been kindly supplied by Mr. 

 Rowland Ward from his notebook. 



