976 ON THE SPANISH IBEX. 



Adult female : In summer pelage tlie general colour is an 

 intermediate tint between cinnamon and fawn, paling to creamy- 

 white on the underparts, the inner side of the limbs, and the 

 lateral and hinder surface of the legs. The muzzle and the sides 

 of the face cream-bufF. The fore part of the legs, from a short 

 distance above the knees and hocks, Yandyk-brown. Tail like 

 the back, with a seal-brown tip. Dorsal stripe and bands of the 

 flanks quite absent. In winter coat the main colour is a dark 

 dirty buff. 



Young of both sexes, in the first year : Colour like adult females, 

 but somewhat paler ; the markings on the legs pale chestnut. 

 The males begin to show the dark areas of the body in the third 

 year, the black tint appearing first on the chest and lower part of 

 the shouldei'S. 



Skull and horns. — See above for the comparison between this 

 and the other subspecies. 



Measureinents (of type, mounted). — Length from nose to root 

 of tail, along the curves, 1355 mm.; tail, 130; hind foot, with 

 hoofs, 385; ear, 120; height at shoulder, 700*. 



Skull {oi paratype, Madrid Museum, No. 1523): Total length, 

 264 mm. ; interorbital breadth, 110; length of nasals along median 

 suture, 95 ; greatest width of ditto, 40 ; upper molar series, 68 ; 

 lower molar series, 75. For the horn-measurements, see the 

 foregoing table (p. 974). 



Type. — Old m.ale in summer coat, from Madrigal de la Yei-a, on 

 the southern slope of the Sierra de Gredos, Madrid Museum, 

 No. 448. 



The differences between this subspecies and both the typical 

 and the Mediterranean forms of C. pyrenaica^ fully discussed 

 above, will be, I hope, clearly shown by the accompanying figures 

 and plates. I have considered it unnecessary to give a coloured 

 figure of the Pyrenean form, as there is a tolerably good one in 

 Lydekker's ' Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats,' besides the portrait of 

 a young male in Cuvier's ' Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes.' 

 Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about G. p. hispanica. 

 The figure published by Schinzin 'Monographiender Siiugethiere' 

 is anything but good, and the one in Kosenhauer's 'Thiere 

 Andalusiens ' is not much better, the rigidity and other defects of 

 the mounted specimen, after which it was evidently made, being 

 too faithfully reproduced by the artist. As for the Ibex of 

 Central Spain, in Graells' ' Fauna Mastodol6gica Iberica,' there 

 is a plate which appears to be an attempt to represent some of 

 the specimens in the Madrid Museum ; but they are figured in 

 quite a grotesque and childish way, and the colour is entirely 

 false. The Ibexes on the Risco del Fraile in Chapman and Buck's 

 ' Unexplored Spain ' are correctly drawn ; but the illustration, 

 being uncoloured, cannot give a complete idea of the animal. 



* In an old buck from the Sierra Nevada, in the Madrid Museum, the length 

 from nose to root of tail is 1190 mm. ; the hind foot, 305, 



