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Mr. OgUby exhibited skins of two species of his new genus Kemas, 

 and directed the attention of the Society to their generic and specific 

 characters. Mr. Ogilby observed, that the genus in question occu- 

 pied an intermediate station between the goats and the Oryges, 

 agreeing with the former in its mountain habitat and general con- 

 formation, and with the latter in the presence of a small naked muzzle 

 and four teats in the females. Of the two species exhibited, one 

 was a fine male specimen of the Iharal, presented by James Far- 

 rail, Esq., and the other a new species from the Neilgherry Hills, 

 known to Madras and Bombay sportsmen by the name of the Jungle 

 Sheep, and which Mr. Ogilby had long looked for. In form and 

 habit of body, as well as in the character of the horns, this animal 

 is intermediate to the Iharal and Ghoral ; the specific name of Kemas 

 Hylocrius was proposed for it in allusion to its local appellation. 

 The body is covered with uniform short hair, obscurely annulated 

 like that of most species of deer, and more nearly resembling the 

 coat of the Ghoral than that of either the Iharal or Chamois, the 

 other species of which the genus is at present composed. The horns 

 are uniformly bent back, surrounded by numerous small rings, 

 rather flattened on the sides, with a small longitudinal ridge on the 

 inner anterior edge : the ears are of moderate length, and the tail 

 very short. Mr. Ogilby entered at some length into the characters 

 and relations of the genus Kemas ; he observed that naturalists and 

 commentators had greatly puzzled themselves to discover the deri- 

 vation of the word Kemas, and the animal to which the ancient 

 Greeks applied that name. Among others. Col. H. Smith applies it 

 to the Chira, with which the ancients certainly were not acquainted : 

 but Mr. Ogilby observed, that the root, both of the Greek Kemas and 

 the modem Chamois, was manifestly traceable to the German word 

 Gems, which is still the name of the Chamois eastward of the Rhine, 

 and which the Dutch colonists have transferred to the Cape Oryx 

 {Oryx capensis). 



