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cheeks, back of ears, tail, and a fetlock-baud black or 

 blackish. In the male, at any rate, two teats. 



94. 3. 9. 11. Skin, mounted. Jebel Taw, Oman. Para- 

 type. Presented hy Licut.-Col. A. S. G-. Jayaker, 1894. 



94. 3. 9. 12. Skin. Jebel Taw. Type. Same history. 



III. HEMITEAGUS HYLOCEIUS. 



Kemas hyloorius, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 81 ; Floiuer and 

 Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Sjirg. pt. ii, p. 254, 1884. 



Capra (Ibex) warryato, Cray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x, 

 p. 267, 1842. 



Capra warryato. Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 168, 1843. 



Kemas warryato. Gray, Cat. JJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 146, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 51, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 122, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 246, 1862. 



Hemitragus hyloorius, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxviii, 

 p. 291,1859; /en^oK, Afamm.Ind. p. 288, 1867 ; MacMaster, Notes 

 on Jerdon's Mamm. p. 1 17, 1870 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, 

 Mamm. p. 511, 1891; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 231, 

 1896, ed. 6, p. 350, 1910; Lydelther, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and 

 Goats, p. 303, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 137, 1907, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 22, 1913 ; Fletcher, Sport on 

 the Nilgiris, p. 303, pi. 1911. 



Capra (Hemitragus) hyloorius, Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. p. 451, 1884. 



Capra hyloorius, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 318 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 146, 1891. 



NiLGiRl Tahe. 



Typical locality Nilgiri Hills, southern India. 



Size and build much the same as in jemlaicus ; shoulder- 

 height 39 to 42 inches. Horns transversely wrinkled 

 throughout their length, with inner surface nearly flat and 

 outer highly convex, a low compressed keel on front inner 

 , edge, and hind surface rounded. Profile irregular. General 

 colour dark yellowish brown, with a dark dorsal stripe and 

 paler under-parts ; Ijut in old males dark sepia-brown above, 

 passing into blackish on face, with a ring round and a patch 

 behind the eye, as well as a band on side of face, fawn- 

 colour, a conspicuous grizzled or whitish saddle-patch, and 

 legs, which are paler behind, also grizzled. 



The distributional area includes the chief mountain 

 ranges of southern India, namely the Nilgiris, Anamalais, 

 and Western Ghats from the Anamalais nearly to Cape 

 Comorin. 



