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A. Capra hircus segagrus. 



Capra aegagrus, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim. vol. i, p. 260, 1777 ; 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 193, 1788; Desmarest, Mammalogie, 

 vol. ii, p. 483, 1822; Button, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. ii, 

 p. 521, pi. xix, 1142, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, p. 161, 

 1846 ; Blasius, Saugctli. Deutschl p. 485, 1857 ; Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 89, 1886, p. 315, pi. xxi, 1902, vol. ii, p. 226 ; 

 Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 248, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 vol. xliv, p. 15, 1875, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, p. 89, 1876, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Mamm. p. 502, 1891 ; Danford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1875, p. 458 ; Danford and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 276 ; 

 Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 446, 1884 ; Radde, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1887, p. 552 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 142, 

 1891 ; Satunin, Zool. Jahrb. vol. ix, p. 311, 1896, Jestestv. i 

 georg. vol. xliv, pt. 7, p. 13, 1909 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 p. 229, 1896 ; Camcrano, Mem. Ac. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. Ivi, 

 p. 284, 1906; Miller, Cat. Mamm. W. Europe Brit. Mus. p. 992, 

 1912. 



Antilope gazella, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 190, 1788, nee Capra 

 gazella, Linn. 



^Egoceros aegagrus, Pallas, Zool. Rosso- Asiat. vol. i, p. 266, 1811 ; 

 Kotschy, Verli. Ver. Wien, vol. iv, p. 201, 1854. 



Capra caucasica, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 167, 1843; Adams, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 525, nee Giildenstddt. 



Hircus gazella, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 53, 1872. 



apra hircus var. segagrus, Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. 

 Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 251, 1884. 



Capra hircus aegagrus, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 

 p. 260, 1888, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 151, 1901 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 378, 1910. 



WILD GOAT : PASANG. 



Typical locality Daghestan district of the Caucasus. 



Build relatively slender, with a shoulder-height reaching 

 37 inches. Horns triangular, much compressed, with inner 

 front edge (the only one developed) sharp, keeled for some 

 -distance above base, and in terminal three-fourths carrying 

 several widely sundered knobs; inner surface nearly flat, 

 outer convex, rounded behind ; tips generally convergent ; 

 faintly striated transversely throughout. Beard very long, 

 and in old animals as wide as chin ; hair on neck and shoulders 

 elongated, especially in winter, when under-fur is developed. 

 General colour in winter brownish grey, in summer reddish 

 brown, paler in old males; under-parts and inner sides of 

 buttocks and thighs white or whitish ; face, a nucho-dorsal 

 stripe, tail, a collar on neck, expanding into a breast-plate, 

 throat, chin, beard, front of limbs (except knees), and a flank- 

 stripe blackish brown, becoming black in places ; knees, hind 



