ASIATIC IBEX— ALPINE IBEX 



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ASIATIC IBEX (Capra sibirica) — continued. 



ALPINE IBEX (Capra ibex). 



This species, which only survives in a protected state, differs from 

 the Asiatic ibex by the much smaller size of the beard of the male, as 

 well as by a slight variation in the horns ; the height at the shoulder 

 reaching to about 40 inches. Weight from 85 to 106 lbs., clean. 

 Formerly distributed throughout the higher Alps of Switzerland, Savoy, 

 and the Tyrol, but now surviving only in a few valleys on the Italian 

 side of Monte Rosa. Most of the few specimens now obtainable are 

 comparatively small, and good horns are very scarce in English 

 collections. 



