316 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON WILD GOATS. [May 18, 



^-Effoceros pallasi, Bouill. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 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 tiie British Museum which are labelled ^lEyoceros 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 sinaitica. (Plate XXXII.) 



Capra nubiana, Geoffr. St.-Hil. et Cuv. Mamm. vii. t. 397(182.5). 



Capra sinaitica, Hempr. et Ehr. Symb. Phys. Zool. i. t. xviii. 

 (1828). 



Capra arabica, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 17 (1835). 



^ffoceros beden, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 1303 (183G). 



Capra beden, Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 6, pi. 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 and Palestine \ It would be therefore perhaps 

 better to drop the name nubiana, under which it was first described 

 by F. Cuvier, and to employ instead "sinaitica^' of Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg, These authors give Gebel Garab as one of its exact 

 localities in Egy|)t, 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. Neue Wirbelth., 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 Rii[)pell, 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 

 Riippell, which are in the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort. 



7. Capra sibirica. 



Ibex idpiuin 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 Shootina:, i. p. 145 

 (188.5). 



Capra himahnjana, Schinz, Mamm. ii. p. 463 (1845). 



At seems to be now generally agreed that the Ibex of the Altai 



^ Hempr. et Ebr. Sj-mb. Phys. l.s.c; Eiipp. Neue Wirbelth. i. p. 17; Tris- 

 tram, Fauna of Palestine, p. G. 



