SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



colour gray-brownish beneath, and whitish under the 

 throat; tail short; female with tubercles covered with a 

 tuft of dark hair instead of horns. 



A. Goral, Hardwick, Lin. Trans. Bouquetain de Nepal. 

 Duvaucel, MS. 



Icon. Lin. Transactions. Nobis. 



Habitat. Mountains of Nepaul. 



Sub-genus XIV. — Rupicapra. Structure caprine ; horns 

 in both sexes, vertical, round, striated, with few wrinkles at 

 base, taper, suddenly uncinated backwards ; limbs strong ; 

 inguinal pores ; two mammcB ; two glandular apertures be- 

 hind the horns ; dark streak through the eyes ; hair longer, 

 with a small quantity of wool beneath ; stature middle sized. 

 Reside in the mountains of Europe and Asia. 



863. 56. A. Rupicapra (the Chamois.) Adult male 

 about two feet three inches high, four feet six inches long ; 

 horns seven or eight inches long, uncinated backwards 

 and pointed; in old males wrinkled at base, longitudinally 

 striated ; cheeks and throat, fawn colour ; a black streak 

 through the eyes ; general colour brownish gray ; wool 

 beneath grayish ; tail short. 



Rupicapra, Plijiy. . A. Rupicapra Pcdl. and Auctor. 

 Capra Rupicapra, Linn. Chamois, Yzard, of the French. 

 Gemsebock of the Germans. 



Icon. Buff. Schreber. Nobis in all its states. 



Habitat. The secondary ridges of the Alpine Moun- 

 tains of Europe and Asia. 



Var. a. The Yzard. Smaller, gray brown, cheeks and 

 buttocks fawn colour. Inhabits the Pyrenees. 



Var. (3. The Persian Chamois, smaller ; horns bent 

 back into a regular hook from their root ; streak through 

 the eyes, nearly obliterated ; hair close and fine ; colour 

 rufous yellow. 



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