136 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



A. Capra severtzowi sever tzowi. 



Capra severtzowi, Menzbier, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 618 ; Satunin, 

 Zool. Jahrb. Alt. f. Syst. vol. ix, p. 312, 1896 * ; Matschie, Sitzber. 

 Ges. nat. Freunde, 1901, p. 27 ; Dinnik, Zool. Beob. vol. xlix, 

 p. 353, 1908 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 240, 1910. 



Capra caucasica, Pallas, Ada Ac. Petrop. vol. iii, pt. 2, 1779, p. 273, 

 pis. xvii A and B, 1783 ; Biichner, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 

 vol. xxxv, No. 8, p. 16, pi. ii, 1887 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 p. 227, 1896, ed. 6, p. 383, 1910 ; Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and 

 Goats, p. 246, pi. xxi, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 

 p. 141, 1901, nee Guldenstddt. 



Capra (Ibex) severtzowi, Camerano, Mem. Ac. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, 

 vol. Ivi, p. 284, 1906. 



Capra caucasica severtzowi, Lydekker, Field, vol. cxiii, p. 376, 1909 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 383, 1910. 



Typical locality Western Caucasus, in the central chain, 

 to the west of Mount Elbruz, and to the south of the chain 

 of Teberda. 



Size large ; shoulder-height 38 to about 42 inches.f Horns 

 long, with relatively small knots on front surface ; beard, 

 when fully developed, of moderate length. General colour 

 in summer tending more or less to rufous, with, at least in 

 some, instances, no distinct dark dorsal stripe. General 

 colour in summer rufous brown, darker and browner on the 

 forehead, where the hair is longer, wavy, and forms whorls, 

 another whorl occurring on the nose ; under-parts much the 

 same tint as back,! chest dark reddish brown in the middle ; 

 on front of legs colour darker than on the body, becoming 

 black near the hoofs, above which is a white spot. 



Dinnik lays stress on the wide interval between the 

 horns, but this appears to be dependent on age; the 

 tip-to-tip interval in the undermentioned mounted specimen 

 (No. 92. 3. 16. 1) being only 16 inches. Fine horns measure 

 from 34 to just 40 inches along the front curve, with a girth 

 of from 11 to 12| inches, and a tip-to-tip interval ranging 

 from 15J to 27| inches. 



92. 3. 16. 1. Skin, in summer coat, mounted, and 

 skeleton. Western Caucasus. 



Presented lij St. George Littledale, Esq., 1893. 



* Name spelt severzowi. 



[ Forty-three inches = 109 cm., according to Dinnik. 

 % Dinnik gives the general colour as reddish grey, and that of 

 nanks and under-parts dirty white. 



