150 MAMMALIA. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Bouquetin, Daub. Buff. H. N. xii. t. 14. 



C. Ibex, Schinz, Nov. Mem. Soc. Helv. N. S. ii. t. 2, horns. 



Base of skull and horns, very large. 



Two skulls and horns. 



Single horn, rather compressed. 



2. CAPRA SIBIRICA. The TEK or TAKIGA. 



Pale grey. Ears oblong. Beard of both sexes dependent. 

 Lower maxilla of male, and spot on each side of the jaw in the 

 female, black brown. 



Ibex Sibiricarum (Der Sibirische Steinbok), Pallas, Spic. Zool. xi. 



32, 53. t. 3. t. 5. f. 4, horns. 

 Capra Sibirica, Meyer, Zool. Ann. i. 397. 4 ; Schinz, Nov. Mem. 



Soc. Helv. ii. t. 2, horns, 1838; Sundevall, Pecora, 94; Gray, 



List Mamm.B. M. 16?. 



Capra Ibex, Schreb. Saugth. t. 281, from Pallas. 

 Capra Pallasii, Sehinz in Cuvier, Thierr. iv. 511. 

 ^Egoceros Ibex, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 224. 

 Capra Ibex /3. Sibiricus, Fischer, Syn. 485. 

 Hob. Siberia. 



Male and female. Siberia. From the St. Petersburg Academy. 



3. CAPRA HIMALAYANA. The SAKEEN or SKYN. 



Brownish grey. Tail, beard, dorsal stripe, band on shoulders, 

 anterior part of limbs, black or dark brown. 



Capra Ibex, Hodgson, Journ. A. S. Beng. x. 913, xi. 183. 



Capra Sakeen, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. 283, not described. 



Capra Ibex Himalayanus, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 

 414, iv. 291. 



Himalayan Ibex or Skeen, Hutton, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 542 ; 

 Kennedy, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. 242. 



Himalaya Ibex, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, 81. 



Capra himalayanus, Schinz, Syn. 463 ? 



Skyn, Skeen, Saken, Sikeen, or Kyi, Vigne, Travels, i. 311. 



Skin, Herbert, Asiat. Res. xv. 397. 



Skvn $ , Damma $, Moorcroft, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1839, 

 928. 



Capra (^Egoceros) Skyn, Wagner; Sundevall, Pecora, 94. 



Capra JEgagrus, Hutton, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 521. t. 19. 



Ibex (from Simla), Ogilby in Royle's Himal. i. 75. 



Hob. Himalaya; Little Thibet; Mountain districts of Afghan- 

 istan, called Borz by the Afghans. 



Probably not distinct from Ibex Sibirica. 



