CAPRINE 149 



General colour in winter dark chocolate-brown, and a 

 large buffish saddle, separated only by a narrow chocolate 

 band from the whitish neck-patch. In size the saddle is 

 intermediate between that of lydddteri and the large one of 

 sahccn. The horns approximate to those of almasyi, but are 

 stouter, shorter, and narrower in transverse section. 



0. 6. 25. 1. Skin, mounted. Braldu, Baltistan. Type. 

 Presented ly J. Boioland Ward, Usq., 1900. 



92. 7. 29. 1. Body-skin. Flanks of Nunga Parbat, 

 Baltistan. Shows the larger white dorsal area. 



Presented hy H. Littledale, Psq., 1892. 



75. 10. 9. 2. Skin, mounted, and skull, referred by 

 Lorenz to this or a closely allied race. Tian Shan, north- 

 west of Kashgar. 



Presented ly Gen. Sir T. E. Gordon, K.C.B., 1875. 



79. 11. 21. 250. Skin, mounted, probably referable to 

 same race as preceding. Near Yarkand ; collected by 

 Dr. Belle w. Transferred from India Museum, 1879. 



91. 8. 7. 141. Skull, with horns. Flanks of Haramosh, 

 between GUgit and Baltistan. 



Presented hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., G.B., 1891. 



J. — Capra sibirica sakeen. 



Capra sakeen, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xi, p. 283, 1842. 

 jEgoceros skyn, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 491, 



1844. 

 Ibex sakin, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 700, 1847. 

 Capra skyn, Severtzow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 334, 



1878 ; Przewalshi, Peters' Mitth. Erzh. vol. xii, p. 5, 1878. 

 Capra sakin, Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 504, 1891. 

 Capra sibirica sacin, LydeJcleer, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 284, 



1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol. i, p. 91, pi. x, Game Animals of 



India, etc. p. 119, 1907 ; Lorenz, Denies. K. Ale. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Ixxx, p. 91, 1906; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 869, 



1910 ; Camerano, Atti Ac. Sci. Torino, vol. xlvi, p. 201, 1911. 

 Capra sibirica sakeen, Bothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. vii, p. 277, 1900 ; 



Lorenz, op. cit. p. 91, 1906; Lydehlter, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. 



Mus. p. 13, 1913. 



Typical locality Kashmir, where this ibex inhabits the 

 mountains on the northern and eastern sides of the valley, 

 from which it may extend eastwards and northwards. 



Greater portion of back (exclusive of a pale brown dorsal 



