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teats usually four ; a larger or smaller bare area on muzzle ; 

 lateral hoofs, as in preceding subfamilies, always developed. 

 Tail usually short, but longer, with a terminal tuft, in some 

 species of Nemorhcedus. Ears long or short, narrow or broad. 



The group ranges over the mountain regions of southern 

 and south-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Himalaya, China. 

 Japan, Formosa, and north-western North America. 



The genera may be distinguished as follows : 



A. Muffle large ; horns conical, inclining backwards 



without terminal hook. 



a. Face-glands present Capricornis. 



b. Face-glands wanting Nemorhcedus. 



B. Muffle small. 



a. A pair of glands behind horns. 



a'. Horns conical, strongly hooked backwards 



at tip ; colour dark Eupicapra. 



b'. Horns conical, inclining backwards, with- 

 out terminal hook ; colour white Oreamnos. 



b. No glands behind horns. 



Build heavy ; horns massive, keeled, bent out- 

 wards, then slightly downwards, and finally 

 upwards Budorcas. 



I. Genus RUPICAPRA. 



Eupicapra, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75 ; PococJc, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 848 ; Miller, Cat. Mamm. W. Europe Brit. 



Mus. p. 992, 1912. 

 Capella, Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. Europ. p. iv, 1840 ; 



Blasius, Saugeth. Deutschl. p. 487, 1857. 

 Cemas, Gloger, Gemein. Hand- u. Hilfsbuch. Naturgesch. vol. i, 



p. 153, 1841, nee Oken. 



Build lighter than in Capra ; no beard ; cannon-bones 

 long and slender. Horns rising almost vertically, with the 

 tips sharply but regularly hooked, so that they point back- 

 wards, downwards, and slightly outwards. Muffle small, 

 tail short. Shallow foot-glands, approximating to the 

 gazelline rather to the ovine type; no face-glands, but 

 a pair of post-cornual glands in the male; four teats. 

 Skull with facial portion moderately bent downwards, and 

 occipital region not distinctly tubular behind ; no lachrymal 

 pits ; nasal branch of premaxillse not touching nasals ; teeth 

 of the Oms type, but crowns of incisors shorter ; terminal 



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