1875.] some Indian Ruminants. 15 



Hutton also relates the success of some experiments made by him as to the 

 effect of crossing the wild Capra oegagrus with tame goats, but he is dis- 

 inclined to believe that the former is really identical in species with the 

 latter. In Hutton's ' Rough notes on the Mammals of Candabar' in the 

 Journal of the Society for 1816, he only refers to bis previous description, 

 and mentions the final result of his experiments in breeding between 

 C. cegagrus and tame goats. The same animal apparently was obtained 

 by Sir A. Burnes in Cabool, and was described by Dr. Lord in Appendix V 

 to Burnes's work on that country, p. 386. He speaks of it as the Markhor- 

 Pazuhu ; the (latter word being perhaps a corruption of Pasang,) and notices 

 that it is probably Capra cegagrus. A pair of horns obtained by Sir A. 

 Burnes and named C. cegagrus by Blyth is in the Asiatic Society's collection, 

 now the Indian Museum. 



The following synonymy will enable any one to examine the history 

 of the animal more fully : other references might be given, but the greater 

 portion of them will be found quoted by the authors named. A most 

 elaborate account of the habits of this animal in the Caucasus is given by 

 Kotschy (1. c). 



Capka ^gagetjs. — The Pasang or Persian wild goat. 



S. G. Gmelin, Eeise. III., p. 493. 



Mgagrus, Pallas, Spic. Zool. Fasc. XI, p. 43, Tab. V. fig. 2, 3, (1776). 



Caucasan, Pennant, hist. quad. No. 14, p. 51. 



Antilope gazella, Gmel., Syst. Nat. I, p. 190, partim, nee Capra gazella, L. 



Capra cegagrus, Gmel., Syst. Nat. I, p. 193, partim. 



JEgoceros cegagrus, Pall. Zool. Eos. As. I, p. 226, Tab. XVI, fig. 3, 4, 5. 



Capra cegagrus, Schreb. Saugtb. V, p. 1266, PL CCLXXXII. 



JEgoeeros cegagrus, "Wagner, in Scbreb. Saugtb. V, 1, p. 1315. — lb. Suppl. Pt. IV, 



p. 502. 

 Markhor-Pazuhu, Burnes, Cabool, p. 386, (1842). 

 Capra cegagrus, Hutton, Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist. 1842, II, p. 521, PL XIX, (a poor 



figure of tbe whole animal). — J. A. S. B., XV, p. 161. 

 Capra Caucasica, Gray, List. Mam. Brit. Mus. (1843) p. 167. — Adams P. Z. S. 1858, 



p. 525 ; "Wanderings of a naturalist, p. 36. 

 Sirens cegagrus, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Furcipeda Brit. Mus. (1852), p. 153, partim. — 



Cat. Bum. Mam. (1872), p. 53, partim. 

 Capra hireus, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Furc. PL XX, fig. 1, 2, (boms). 

 Capra cegagrus, Kotschy, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien, IV, 1854, p. 201. — Blasius, 



Saugth. Deutschl. p. 485, fig. 264, (skull and horns). 

 ? Sircus gazella, Gray, Cat. Rum. Mam. p. 53, partim. 

 Capra cegagrus, Blyth, Cat. Mam. Mus. As. Soc, p. 176. No. 544, (1863). 

 Capra Blythi, Hume, Proc. As. Soc. 1874, p. 240. 

 Pasang, male, £oz, female, Persian ; Borz, Afghan ; Ter (male) and Sera, Sindhi ; 



Phashin, Baluchi. 



