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to purer white on middle of back; under-parts browner, 

 owing to dark hair-tips ; forehead, ring round eye, occiput, 

 ears, and sides of neck darker. A thin white line on upper 

 lip and a broader one on lower lip ; a narrow dark dorsal 

 stripe and faint shoulder-stripe. Hind-legs brown in front 

 and whitish on outer side inferiorly, and some white on hind 

 surface of fore-legs near lateral hoofs. In old bucks, which 

 may become nearly white, the colour pattern recalls that of 

 C. hircus cegagrus. 



No specimen in collection. 



B. Capra sibirica fasciata. 



Capra fasciata, Noacl; Zool. Anz. vol. xxv, p. 623, 1902, vol. xxvi, 



p. 390, 1903. 

 Capra sibirica fasciata, Lorenz, Deriks. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixxx, 



p. 87, 1906; Lydekker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 116, 1907. 



Typical locality North-east Altai, or Bia Altai, in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Telezko. 



General colour (season not stated) yellowish brown 

 above, with a dark spot on lower lip at angle of mouth ; a 

 broad horizontal black band on lower part of fore-legs ; a 

 light patch on posterior surface of lower part of hind-legs, 

 and a hair- whorl on outer side of same ; ears large and 

 rounded, lighter internally ; iris brownish red. 



No specimen in collection. 



C. Capra sibirica altaica. 



Capra altaica, NoacTt (ex ScJiinz, 1845), Zool. Anz. vol. xxv, p. 623, 



1902. 

 Capra sibirica altaica, Lorenz, Deriks. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixxx, 



pp. 87, 96, pi. ii, 1906 ; LydekJcer, Game Animals of India, etc. 



p. 116, 1907. 



Typical locality Irtish Altai. 



Very similar in winter coat to typical sibirica, being light 

 dirty white, but with a rufous tinge, and a dark flank-band. 

 Face, fore part of neck, and shoulder less dark than in 

 typical race, and their colour merging gradually into that of 

 body. In summer general colour greyish brown, without a 

 light saddle-patch ; the tint being described as caje-au-lcdt 



