CAPRINE 155 



38 J inches along front curve, with a girth of from 6 to 74, 

 and a tip-to-tip interval of from 12 to 15 J inches. 



99. 2. 12. 1. Skin, immature, mounted. Sinaitic 

 Peninsula, Presented ly Lieut. -Col. J. Marriott, 1899. 



5. 12. 12. 5. Skull, with horns. Hills east of Ain Musa, 

 Oiebel el Skata. Presented by Mrs. Anderson, 1905. 



64. 8. 17. 14. Skin and skull, with horns. Engedi, near 

 the Dead Sea. Presented ly Canon Tristram, 1864. 



64. 8. 17. 15. Immature skin, skull, and horns. Same 

 locality. Same donor. 



99. 11. 6. 87. Skull, with horns. Abian Mountains, east 

 of Aden ; collected by Messrs. Percival and Dodson. 



Purchased, 1899. 



5. 7. 2. 20. Skin, female, bad condition. Mountains 

 east of Karyatein, Syria ; collected by D. Carruthers, Esq. 



Purchased, 1905. 



C. Capra nubiana mengesi. 



Capra mengesi, NoacJt, Zool. Anz. vol. xxi, p. 353, 1896, vol. xxii, 

 p. 13, 1897 ; see also Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 900. 



Capra sinaitica mengesi, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Europe, 

 etc. p. 173, 1901, Game Animals of Africa, p. 90, 1908 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 376, 1910. 



Typical locality Hadramaut, south-east Arabia. 



Said to differ from sinaitica by the convexity of the inner 

 surface of the horns. Good horns measure from 39J to 

 50 inches along curve, with a girth of from 7J to 8^, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval ranging from 12 to 19J inches. 



No specimen in collection. 



VII. CAPEA WALIE. 



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Capra walie, Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere Abyssin., Saugeth. vol. i, 

 p. 16, pi. vi, 1835 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 316 ; Roth- 

 schild, ibid. 1901, vol. ii, p. 281, Appendix to Powell-Cotton's 

 Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 478, 1902. 



Capra valie, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 95, 1846 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 152, 1852. 



Capra wall, Richters, Big Game Shooting (Badminton Library), 

 vol. ii, p. 325, 1894. 



Capra vali, Lyde~k~ker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 270, 1898, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 91, 1908; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 374, 1910. 



