116 



MAMMALIA. 



Capra Rupicapra, Linn. S. N. i. 95. 



Rupicapra tragus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 167; Cat. OsteoL 



B. M. 57; Ann. $ Mag. N. H. 1846, 232; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1849. 



Rupicapra, Plinii H. N. viii. 53; Gesner, Quad. 321. fig. 329. 

 Rupicapra Tragus, Turner, P. Z. S. 1850. 

 Rupicapra capella, Bonap. Fauna Ital. 

 Tragus seu Dorcas, Klein, Quad. 17. 

 'Ai aypios, Oppian, Cyneg. ii. 338. 

 Chamois, Perrault, Anim. i. 201. t. 29; Buffon, H. N. xii. 136, 



177. t. 16; Penn. Syn. 17; Quad. i. 72; Shaw, Zool. ii. 361. 



t. 187. 

 Gems, Riding Jagdb. Th. t. 12; Kleine, Th. t. 72; Wilde, Thier. 



t. 25; Meyer, Thier. i. t. 66; Lewenwald. Damegraph. 1793; 



Allisser. v. Salins Marschlin Hopfn. Mag. i. 111. 

 Hob. South Europe ; Switzerland ; Pyrenees and Pindarus. 



In summer coat, yellowish. Alps, Europe. 



In change (nose imperfect). Alps, Europe. 



In winter coat, blackish. Alps, Europe. 



Two skins. Mount Pindus. Presented by S. S. Saunders, Esq. 



Young. Alps, Europe. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Chamoise, Daub, in Buffon Hist. Nat. xii. t. 17. 



Two skulls and horns. Alps. Presented by General Hard- 

 wicke. 



Three horns. Alps. 



Skull, with horns. Alps. Presented by John Gould, Esq. 



Skeleton. Alps. From Mr. Brandt's Collection. 



Three pair of horns of different ages. Alps. Presented bv 

 J. E. Gray, Esq. 



I have compared specimens from Switzerland, the Pyrenees 

 and Mont Pilatus, and cannot discover any difference between 

 them. 



28. ANTILOCAPRA. 



Horns erect, arising directly over the orbit, compressed at the 

 base, with a flattened process in front, and ending in a conical 

 recurved tip. Nose ovine, hairy. Muffle none. Tear-bag none. 

 Fur very close. Hair stiff, coarse, flattened, wavy. Tail very 

 short. False hoofs none. Inguinal pores none. Legs rather 

 slenderer than the other Goat Antelopes. Female horned. Skull 

 with " no suborbital depression ; the fissure lengthened ; the 

 nasal bones widest posteriorly ; the orbit a little elevated above 

 the line of the face, and the masseteric ridge not rising before 



