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Blanford, in " Eastern Persia ", quotes Major St. John : — " I believe, 

 myself, that it will be found that 0. gmelini is confined to the Elburz and 

 that 0. cydoceros extends from Baluchistan to Mesopotamia ". As 0. 

 gmelini belongs to the orientalis group and 0. cydoceros to the vignei grouj) 

 this quotation seems about to be proved prophetic. 



Specimens from Budjnurd near the Persian-Turkestan Frontier are of 

 the larger forms of the vignei group, and are referred to 0. v. arkar, a 

 subspecies from the Ust-Urt plateau, Transcaspia. 



38, Oapka aegagrtjs blythi, Lyd. 



1898. Capraaegagrus blythi, Lydekker. Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 264. Sind Wild Goat. 



$1. Shushtar..W. Persia. .Bailey, Reed, Bombay, 23-2-18 (skin with- 

 out skull). 



As the only specimen is a female without skull, I have been obliged to 

 assume the probability of the Push-ti-koh wild goats being the same as 

 those recently sent by Hotson from Shiraz, in order to give even an 

 approximate classification. 



Capra aegagrus blythi is a smaller subspecies than that found in the Cauca- 

 sus and Asia Minor, viz., Capra egagrus egagrus, and has a slighter deve- 

 lopment or even absence of the knobs on the front edge of the horns and 

 this latter is also sharper in C. en. blythi. 



The type locality of Capra egagrus blythi is Sind and since the arrival 

 of Hotson's specimens its known range can be extended to Baluchistan and 

 Shiraz. 



