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cheeks, back of ears, tail, and a fetlock-band black or 

 blackish. In the male, at any rate, two teats. 



94. 3. 9. 11. Skin, mounted. Jebel Taw, Oman. Para- 

 type. Presented by Lieut. -Col. A. S. G. Jayaker, 1894. 



94. 3. 9. 12. Skin. Jebel Taw. Type. Same history. 



III. HEMITKAGUS HYLOCRIUS. 



Kemas hylocrius, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 81 ; Flower and 

 Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mm. E. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 254, 1884. 



Capra (Ibex) warryato, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x, 

 p. 267, 1842. 



Capra warryato, Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 168, 1843. 



Kemas warryato, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 146, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 51, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 122, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 246, 1862. 



Hemitragus hylocrius, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxviii, 

 p. 291,1859; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind.p.<288, 1867 ; MacMaster, Notes 

 on Jerdon's Mamm. p. ] 17, 1870 ; Stanford, Fauna Brit. India, 

 Mamm. p. 511, 1891; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 231, 

 1896, ed. 6, p. 350, 1910; Li/deJcher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and 

 Goats, p. 303, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 137, 1907, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 22, 1913 ; Fletcher, Sport on 

 the Nilgiris, p. 303, pi. 1911. 



Capra (Hemitragus) hylocrius, Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. p. 451, 1884. 



Capra hylocrius, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 318 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 146, 1891. 



NILGIRI TAHR. 



Typical locality Nilgiri Hills, southern India. 



Size and build much the same as in jemlaicus ; shoulder- 

 height 39 to 42 inches. Horns transversely wrinkled 

 throughout their length, with inner surface nearly flat and 

 outer highly convex, a low compressed keel on front inner 

 edge, and hind surface rounded. Profile irregular. General 

 colour dark yellowish brown, with a dark dorsal stripe and 

 paler under-parts ; but in old males dark sepia-brown above, 

 passing into blackish on face, with a ring round and a patch 

 behind the eye, as well as a band on side of face, fawn- 

 colour, a conspicuous grizzled or whitish saddle-patch, and 

 legs, which are paler behind, also grizzled. 



The distributional area includes the chief mountain 

 ranges of southern India, namely the Nilgiris, Anamalais, 

 and Western Ghats from the Ananialais nearly to Cape 

 Comorin. 



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