MAMMALIA. 149 



4. CAPRA. 



Nose ovine, hairy, without any muffle. Horns (of male) very 

 large, elongate, recurved, curved nearly on the same plane ; base 

 subquadrangular, broad, flattened, and with broad cross ribs in 

 front ; outer side rather compressed and rounded ; tip com- 

 pressed, broad; of female smaller. Hair of forehead elongate, 

 whorled. Crumen and inguinal pore none. Chin bearded. 



Ibex, Gray, Ann. & Mao. N. H. 1846, 230; List Osteol. B. M. 



59. 



Capra, 1. Ibex, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 

 ^Egoceros, sp., Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 228. 

 Capra, sect, ft Sundevall, Pecora, 93. 



* Ears densely villose. 



1. CAPRA IBEX. The IBEX or STEINBOCK. 



Ears small, acute, not one-fourth the length of the head. 

 " Horns of the male very strong, thick, subquadrangular, trans- 

 versely rugose, flattish and nodose in front; of female small, 

 compressed, slightly nodose. Fur in summer short, adpressed, 

 without any under coat, ashy grey. In winter, elongate, fulvous 

 brown, with long, dense, intermixed under-fur. Beard short, 

 brown, in summer wanting." Schinz. 



Capra Ibex (part.), Linn. S. N. i. 95; Gmelin, S. N. i. 19G ; 



Meyer, Zool. Ann. i. 397; Desm. Mam. 480; Fischer, Syn. 



483, 647 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 300. t., v. 868 ; Griffith, A. 



K. v. t. ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 167; Schinz, Nov. Mem. 



Soc. Helv. ii. t. 2, horns, 1838. 

 Capra alpina, Girtanner, Journ. Phys. xxviii. 224. 

 Ibex alpinus, Gray, List Osteol. B. M. 59. 

 Ibex, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 53; Gesner, Quad. 351, fig.; Brisson, 



R. A. 64; Shaw, Mus. Lever, iii. 105. t. 2; Zool. ii. 364. 



t. 198 ; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 667, 668, 669, bad. 

 Wild Goat, Penn. Syn. 13. 

 Bouquetin, Buffon, H. N. xii. t. 13, 14; Cuvier, R. A. i. 266; 



Mam. Lithog. t. 

 Knorr, Delic. ii. t. K. 5. f. 2. 

 Capricornis, Gesner, Quad. 1099. fig. 

 Hab. Europe, Alps, 



Male. Europe, Alps. Presented by Mrs. A. G. Campbell. 

 Male. Europe, Alps. Presented by Messrs Murray and Brocke- 

 don. 



Male. Europe, Alps, 



