1910.] 



AND ON THE SPANISH CHAMOIS. 



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The type is the specimen from Uasingisliu in tlie collection of 

 Mr. de la Huerta (text-fig. 14i)). It is an adult, but not old, 

 male, with horns 432 mm. in length along the front curve. The 

 Turkwell River si^ecimen is a female. 



Text-fig. 149. 



Wliitisli-blazed Topi {Damaliscus phaUus) from the Uasingisliu plateau. Type. 

 RUPICAPRA RUPICAPRA PARVA, Subsp. n. 



Smaller than all the other forms of the species. General colour 

 brownish red, darker on the limbs, becoming dark brown on the 

 forearms, above the " knees," and on the inner part of the hind 

 limbs. Sides of the head dirty greyish brown, leaving in the 

 middle of the face a broad space of yellowish buff. The throat 

 and under jaw are not whitish, as in B. r. pyrenaica^ but only a 

 little paler than the body-colour. 



Hah. Cantabrian Mountains, N". Spain. 



The type is a female from Picos de Europa, Santander province, 

 in the Madrid Museum of N'atural History. She is 570 mm. in 

 height to the shoulder, with horns 1 46 mm. in length on the front 

 curve. The horns of a male skull in the same collection are stouter, 

 l)ut not longer. A female from the Pyrenees, also in the Madrid 

 Museum, is 690 mm. in height to the shoulder, and has horns 

 232 mm. in length. 



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