CAPRINE 133 



(No. 13. 2. 1. 1) entered as C. c. caiimsica. Also skull of 

 same (1690, «■). Purchased, 1879. 



7. 11. 10. 2. Skin, mounted. Eastern Caucasus. 



Presented hy Prince Paul Demidoff, 1907. 



7. 11. 10. 1. Head, female, mounted, and body-skin. 

 Eastern Caucasus. Same liistory. 



93. 11. 20. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Kasbek, 

 Eastern Caucasus. By exchange, 1893. 



93. 11. 20. 2. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature. 

 The horns are distinctly ridged, as appears to be generally 

 the case in immature animals. Kasbek. Same history. 



12. 7. 14. 1-3. Three skulls, with horns. Eastern 

 Caucasus. All are unusually fine specimens. 



Presented hy St. George Littledale, Esq., 1912. 



B. — Capra caucasica caucasica. 



Capra caucasica, Oiildenstddt, in Pallas, Acta Ac. Petrop. vol. iii, 

 pt. 2, p. 273, 1779; MenzUer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 618; 

 Satunin, Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. Syst. vol. ix, p. 311, 1896, Privoda 

 i ochota MosTiva, vol. xxxvii, pt. 8, 1909 ; DinniTc, Zool. Beoh. 

 vol. xlix, p. 338, &g. 2, 1908* ; Mat. faun.flor. Boss, vol. ix, p. 1, 

 1909 ; Camarano, Mem. Ac. 8ci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. Ivi, p. 284, 

 1906 ; Trouessart, Faune Mainm. Europe, p. 240, 1910. 



^goceros ammon, Pallas, Zoogr. Basso. -Asiat. vol. i, p. 221, 1811, 

 nee Capra ammon, Linn. 



Hybrid (?) C. c.ylindrioornis and C. caucasica, ijydehTcer, Wild Oxen, 

 Sheep, and Goats, p. 251, 1898. 



Typical locality the district of Malka and Baksan, 

 eastward of Mount Elbruz, Central Caucasus, whence the 

 range extends to Mount Dychtau. 



Horns somewhat less bharal-like than those of C. c. cylin- 

 dricornis, being frequently long and slender, subquadrangular 

 in section, with the front surface flattened and devoid of 

 knots, but in other cases shorter, stouter, and more nearly 

 triangular in section, with incipient (or vanishing) knots ; 

 terminal curve including about one-third total length. 

 According to Dinnik,t the horns are to a considerable extent 

 intermediate between those of C. c. cylindrieornis and those 

 of C. severtzmvi, but nearer the former than to the latter, the 



* Name printed caucasia. 

 t Op. cit. p. 338. 



