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351. Hemitragus hylocrius. The Nihjiri ivild Goat. 



Kemas hylocrius, Oyilby, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 81. 



Capra (Ibex) warryato, Gra>/, A. M. N. H. x, p. 267 (1842). 



Hemitragus hylocrius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 291 ; id. Cat. 



p. 175 ; Jenlon, Mam. p. 288. 

 Capra hylocrius, Sdater, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 318; W. Sclater, Cat. 

 p. 146. 

 Wan-i-ddd, Warri-dtd, Tani. ; Kanl-ardu, Can. ; Mulla-dtd, Mai. ; 

 Ibex of Eiu'opean sportsmen. 



Hair short, thick, and coarse. A short stiff maue iii males on 

 the ridge of the neck and withers. Knees callous. The face 

 slightly concave at the end of the frontals, nasals a little convex 

 in front. Horns almost touching at the base and subparallel for 

 some distance, then curved back and diverging slowly ; they are 

 transversely wrinkled, flat inside, convex outside, rounded behind, 

 with a low compressed keel inside at the front. Mammse two. 



Colour dark yellowish brown, with a greyish tinge in females 

 and young; a dark band down the back; lower parts paler. Old 

 males are dark sepia-brown, almost black on the face and limbs ; a 

 broad band on each side of the face, and an area behind the eye 

 grizzled and paler, fawn-coloured around the eye ; a large area in 

 the lumbar region and the legs grizzled white, the latter dark 



Fig. 169.— Head of H. hylocrius'^. 



brown in front, paler behind. The lumbar tract is almost v\ bite 

 in very old animals, and from its being conspicuous at a distance 

 adult males are known as " saddlebacks." 



Dimensions. According to Col. Douglas Hamilton old males 

 measure from 39 to 42 inches at the shoulder, nose to tail (straight) 

 50|, tail 3. Females measure up to 35 inches at the shoulder. 



* I am indebted to Mr. E. A. Steindale for making and sending to me 

 the drawing from which this cut is taken. 



