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canine flap at tlie angle of the mouth. Outside of the ears, rufous dark 

 brown slightly tipped with grey ; inside of ditto, at base, dirty white ; 

 upwards on the leaf, grey, which also constitutes the margins. Out- 

 side breast, rxifous ochrey tipped with grey, passing, on the underside 

 of belly, breast, and down the legs, into slate-blue, mixed with grey ; 

 legs pepper-and-salt grey, with some admixture of rufous on front ; 

 toes, dirty greyish wliite. 



Another remarkable character is a crescentic or semicircular flap 

 (canine flap) descending from skin of upper lip over the canine, so as 

 to reach the edge of the chin. This flap of skin is not observed in other 

 specimens ; no bristly hairs at angle of mouth, nor white patch, as in 

 the common Cashmeer variety. 



This individual, an aged male, with canines 2^ inches long, is much 

 smaller than the common dark variety. Musk-bag much larger ; all 

 tlie Shikarees who have seen it declare the specimen to be rare, and 

 only found in the neighbourhood of Tibet, where it was killed, and 

 where we now are, and the peculiarities are so marked that I consider 

 it a distinct species. 



The specimen is moulting ; the hair on the brow coming off in 

 patches. 



ni. — The Goats of Cashmeer. 



[In a letter from Cashmeer in 1838, to Captain Cautley, Dr. Falconer 

 remarks:— ' There are no fewer than three species of wild goat near 

 Cashmeer, the Ibex of the Sno^vy Range the same as I got from 

 Everest, the Tehr (Capra quadrimaminis), and the Markhor,i a noble 

 goat, with horns twisted exactly like the blade of a sword, and as long 

 and diverging as those of the antelope. I went after the Ibex for five 

 days, and saw numbers, but only got a young male.' 



The following is a description, by Dr. Falconer, of the Eev. E. 

 Everest's specimen of the Ibex, taken from a letter written to Mr. 

 Hodgson, about 1835, but probably never sent. — Ed.] 



I have never noticed in any of the synopses pubhshed in the Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society or elsewhere, by you, any mention of the Ibex 

 of the Snowy Range. Does it occur in the Nepaul snow frontier, or is 

 it included in the drawings of the illustrations of Nepaul zoology ? 

 Your series is so complete otherwise, that it were a pity if the Ibex 

 should be wanting. The Rev. Mr. Everest has just returned from a 

 trip nearly as far as the Chinese frontier, on the Spiti River in Upper 

 Kunaor, and brought back with him two specimens of the heads of the 

 male, and an entire stuffed skin, from aU which a very tolerable idea of 

 the animal could be made out. It abounds in the snowy ridges of Kuinaor, 

 along with the Bhurroor-, but it is an infinitely larger animal, and I 

 imagine by far the largest caprine species known. I suspect also it is 

 specifically distinct from the Ibex of the Alps, and very markedly so ; 

 but I have no description of the latter at hand to refer to. The intra- 

 orbital portion of the forehead is more concave, and the nasal portion 

 of the chafFron more convex and prominent than in any ruminant I 

 have ever seen described. The stuffed specimen is now in my possession, 

 and here are some of the dimensions. 



Extreme length of shrivelled skin from extremity of the tail to tip of muzzle, 

 7 ft. 4 in. From tip of toe to the croup, 3 ft. 9 in. From ditto to withers, 3 ft. 9 in. 



' This is the Capra Falconeri of Hugel ; the Aigoccros Falconeri of "Wagner. — [Ed.] 



