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colour browner, and black areas more definite. Females and 

 young males lack a mane and black markings on head and 

 body, showing a blackish tint only on front of limbs ; in 

 males the black areas appear in the second or third year, 

 becoming larger and darker with age. Height at shoulder 

 from about 27 to 32 inches. 



The distributional area includes the mountains of Spain 

 and Portugal ; four local races being recognised. 



A. Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica. 



Capra pyrenaica typica, LydekJcer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 257, 1898. 

 Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica, Cabrera, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1911, p. 966; 



Miller, Cat. Mamni. W. Europe Brit. Mus. p. 990, 1912. 



Typical locality Spanish Pyrenees ; the distributional 

 area formerly including the Pyrenees and eastern part of the 

 Cantabrian chain, but now restricted to region of Mt. Perdido, 

 Huesca. 



Dark markings attaining the maximum development ; 

 lateral stripe broad, black of withers extending downwards 

 nearly or quite to that of upper part of legs ; horns widely 

 spreading, with rim on antero-internal border sharply defined. 

 Good horns measure from 28 to 31 inches along outer curve, 

 with a girth of from 8J to 10^ inches, and a tip-to-tip 

 interval ranging from 20 to 28f inches. 



48. 2. 5. 4. Skin, mounted. Pyrenees. Purchased, 1848. 



48. 2. 5. 5. Skull, female. Pyrenees. Purchased, 1848. 



0. 10. 28. 1. Head, female, mounted. Spain. 



Presented "by Lieut -Col. J. Marriott, 1900. 



50. 9. 4. 1. Immature skin, mounted. Spain. 



Presented ly Sir E. Owen, K.C.B., 1850. 



68. 9. 12. 12. Immature skin. Spain. 



Presented ~by the Zoological Society, 1868. 



B. Capra pyrenaica lusitanica. 



Capra lusitanica, Franca, Bull. Soc. Port. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 144, 

 1909, based on the " Cabra-Montez da Serra do Gerez " of Bocage, 

 Mem. Ac. B. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. ii, pt. i, p. 1, pis. i, ii. 

 Cat>ra pyrenaica lusitanica, Miller, Cat. Mamm. W. Europe Brit. 

 " Mus. p. 991, 1912. 



