1887.] WILD GOATS OF THE CAUCASUS. 553 



place, together with two species of Wild Sheep. On the Great 

 Caucasus C. (egagrus is found locally, but not generally. I have 

 obtained it from the upper Ardon, western Daghestan, and other 

 localities, but it is not found in the eastern ranges." 



I have likewise applied for information on the subject of Capra 

 caucaska to our Foreign Member, Dr. Straucb, of St Petersburg. 

 Dr. Strauch was so kind as to send me immediately the number 

 of the Russian journal mentioned by Dr. Radde, which contains 

 the original article by Mr. Dinnik. This article Mr. Delmar 

 Morgan, F.R.G.S., has most kindly translated for me, and it will be 

 found published in the last number of the 'Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History' \ together with a copy of the plate, which the 

 conductors of that journal have liberally furnished. 



Dr. Strauch has also kindly furnished me with a list of the spe- 

 cimens of Capra caucasica and Capra pallasi in the museum of the 

 Academy of St. Petersburg. It is perhaps not now necessary to 

 read this list ; but I may say that it shows that the Academy pos- 

 sesses, as might have been expected, an ample series of specimens of 

 both species. In short, there can be no longer any possibility of not 

 admitting the distinctness of these two animals ; and the wonder is 

 that they should have been ever confounded together, the very dif- 

 ferent shape and curvature of the horns being at once sufficient to 

 distinguish them. I may, however, add a few words upon some of 

 the synonyms attributed to these two Sheep. 



In the first place, Capra caucasica of Pallas appears to have been 

 little recognized since the time of its describer until recent days. 

 Capra caucasica of Keyserling and Blasius, Wiibelth. Europa's, p. 28 

 (1840), and of Blasius, Saugeth. Deutschlands, p. 479 (1857), as 

 also Mgoceros caucasica, Gray, Cat. of Mamm. pt. iii. p. 148 (1852), 

 are all referable to Capra pallasi. It is probable also that Ovis 

 cylindricornis of Blyth (P. Z. S. 1840, p. 68), based on a description 

 contained in a letter by Col. Hamilton Smith of an animal which 

 died at Toulon, really refers to C. pallasi ; but as this is not certain, 

 it would not be just to set aside Rouiller's name given a year sub- 

 sequently in favour of the former appellation. 



As regards Capra pallasi of Schinz (Neue Denkschr. allgem. 

 Schweiz. Gesellseh. vol. ii, p. 9), which was given by Gray (Cat. 

 of Mamm. pt. iii. p. 148, 1852) as a synonym of ^goceros caucasica, 

 it will be found on reference to that work that this is merely a 

 synonym of Capra sibirica. 



^ "On the Caucasian Mountain-Goat {Capra caucasica, Giild.)." By H, 

 Dinnik. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 5, xix. p. 450. 



