316 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON WILD GOATS. [May 18, 
goceros pallasi, Bouill. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. xiv. p. 908, 
t. xi. (1841). 
This species is restricted to the Caucasian range. _ I have never 
seen living examples of it, but there are two fine stuffed male speci- 
mens in the British Museum which are labelled yoceros pallasi. 
It is a very distinct form, of a generally dark brown colour, with the 
thick horns curving backwards and outwards, the tips finally turning 
upwards and inwards. It seems to be most nearly allied to Capra 
pyrenaica. 
5. Capra stnaitica. (Plate XXXII.) 
Capra nubiana, Geoffr. St.-Hil. et Cuv. Mamm. vii. t. 397 (1825). 
Capra sinaitica, Hempr. et Ehr. Symb. Phys. Zool. i. t. xviii. 
(1828). 
es arabica, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p..17 (1835). 
Aigoceros beden, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 1303 (1836). 
Capra beden, Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 6, pl. ii. 
The Sinaitic Ibex is stated upon the best authority to be found 
only in the mountains of Upper Egypt and in the ranges of the 
Sinaitic Peninsula aad Palestine’. It would be therefore perhaps 
better to drop the name nudiana, under which it was first described 
by F. Cuvier, and to employ instead ‘ sinaitica”’ cf Hemprich and 
Ehrenberg. These authors give Gebel Garab as one of its exact 
localities in Egypt, and Riippell states most positively that it does 
not occur south of 24° N. latitude in that country. 
Our specimen was, I believe, procured at Suakim, on the western 
coast of the Red Sea, and was, no doubt, brought from the moun- 
tains lying to the north of that port. 
The Sinaitic Ibex belongs strictly to the same group as C. ibex 
and C. sibirica, but has the horns rather more compressed and 
strongly knotted in front. 
6. CAPRA WALIE. 
Capra walie, Riipp. Neve Wirbelta., Saugeth. i. p. 16, t. vi. 
This, it appears to me, is a very well-marked species, both as 
regards the shape of its horns and the curious bony protuberance in 
the middle of the forehead, pointed out by Ruppell, by whom it was 
discovered in the highest ranges of Abyssinia. I am not aware that 
any specimens of. this animal have been obtained except those of 
Rippell, which are in the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort. 
7. CAPRA SIBIRICA. 
Ibex alpium sibiricarum, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. xi. p. 31, t. iii. 
Capra sibirica, Meyer, Zool: Ann. i. p. 397 (1794); Jerdon, 
Mamm. Ind. p. 292; Kinloch, Large Game Shooting, i. p. 145 
(1885). 
Capra himalayana, Schinz, Mamm. ii. p. 463 (1845). 
It seems to be now generally agreed that the Ibex of the Altai 
1 Hempr. et Ehr. Synib. Phys, /.s.¢.; Rupp. Neue Wirbelth. i. p. 17; Tris- 
tram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 6. 
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