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only a little paler. Moreover, the sides of the head, grey in the 

 Pyrenean and Central races, are pale bvift", clouded with brownish 

 red, in the Mediterianean form. 



Text-fig. 196. 



Skull and horns of adult male of the Gredos Ibex (X y). 

 Madrid Museum, No. 1623. 



The skulls of C. pyrenaica pyrenaica and C. p. hispanica have 

 been described by Forsyth Major, who gives a number of dif- 

 ferential characteristics, most of them, I think, either merely 

 individual or due to age. A reliable one appears,, however, to be 

 found in the shape of the nasals, which are more abruptly 

 narrowed in front in hispanica than in ti'ue pyrenaica. In this 

 respect the Ibex of Gredos is nearer to the Mediterranean race, 

 the border of the nasals forming an almost perfect V in their 

 distal third. 



Writing of the horns of Ibexes from different localities. Chapman 



