MAMMALIA. 151 



" The Tekr or Wild Goats of the Himalaya (of Simla and Mus- 

 euri) have the anterior edge of the horns decidedly nodose, though 

 less so than the Jharal" Hodgson, J. A. S. B. iv. 491, 1835. 



" Horns of the Ibex are attached to the Zearuts and places of 

 sacred note in Afghanistan." Bengal Journ. 1841, 978. 



" The Ibex is so abundant in Thibet, as to be killed for their 

 potham or fine wool, which is used to make shawls. They sur- 

 round them when the mountains are covered with snow. The 

 horns are slit down longitudinally, and formed into bows for 

 archery." Lord A. Hay. 



In the Collection from Thibet in the India House Museum 

 there are the skins and skulls of what appear to be two species 

 of Capra, but the skulls and skins are not attached together, and 

 the horns of both are very similar. One has short hair and a 

 black beard, and the skull has an elongated face. The other has 

 a black, abundant beard, and very elongated soft fur, like Capra 

 Sibirica, and the skull which appears to belong to it has a short 

 face, very broad at the orbits. 



4. CAPRA? L^EVICORNIS. The SMOOTH-HORNED IBEX. 



Grey brown. Feet, head, large beard, dorsal and posterior 

 ventral line, black. Nose pale. Anal disk small, white. Lateral 

 streak none. Horns very long, curved, smooth ; base rounded, 

 three-sided. 



Capra Ia3vicornis, Sundevall, Pecora, 95. 



Hab. ? Menagerie of the French Museum. Two males. 



The horns are intermediate between C. Ibex and C. hircus; 

 they are probably hybrids. The smoothness of the horns of the 

 specimens in the Paris Museum (1851) appears to arise from the 

 animal having rubbed them against the wall and bars of his pad- 

 dock. 



** Ears very shortly pilose. 



5. CAPRA NUBIANA. The BEDEN or JAELA. 



Fulvous grey (in winter brown). Dorsal line and sides of tail 

 blackish, beneath white. Feet black and white spotted. Ears 

 three-streaked. Male bearded, beard black. Horns very long, 

 subtriangular above, knotted, reclinate on the base. Female 

 beardless. Horns slender, smooth, rather compressed, apex 

 slightly inclined. 



Capra Ibex (Baeden), Forsk. Faun. Arab. iv. 



Capra Nubiana (Boue de la Haute Egypte), F. Cuvier, Mam. 



Lithog. 1825 ; Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 9 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. 168: 



Fischer, Syn. 483, 648, 



