OF INDIAN BIG GAME 13 



development, or even absence, of the knots on the front edge 

 of the scimitar-like horns, which are more closely approxi- 

 mated at the tips, and apparently also by the paler ground- 

 colour of the coat. 



24.— 12. 10. 31. 62. Skull and horns (fig. 6). Surjan 

 Hills, Sind ; shot by Col. F. Marston. Length of horns on 

 front edge 52f, girth 7|, tip-to-tip interval 8| inches. The 

 record length is 55^ inches. 



25.— 12. 10. 31. 63. Skull and horns. Twenty miles 

 north-west of the Eric Hills, Sind. 



26.— 12. 10. 31. 64. Skull and horns. Mekran Hills ; 

 shot by Mr. J. Stupp. 



THE ASIATIC IBEX. 



Capka sibirica. 



Capra sibirica, Meyer, Zool. Annal. vol. i, p. 397, 1794 ; Blanford, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 503, 1891 ; Lydekker, Wild Oxen, 

 Sheep, and Goats, p. 255, 1898, Qanie Animals of India, etc. 

 p. 113, 1907 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 369, 1910. 



This species, the finest representative of the true ibexes, 

 has been subdivided into a number of local races, of which 

 the typical one inhabits the Sayansk Eange, to the westward 

 of Lake Baikal. 



A. — Kashmir Race. 



Capra sibirica sakeen. 



Capra sakeen, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xi, p. 283, 1841. 



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



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



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

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

 India, etc. p. 119, 1907 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 369, 1910. 



This race, which inhabits the mountains bordering the 

 northern and eastern sides of the Valley of Kashmir, from 

 which it may extend eastwards and northwards, is distin- 

 guished by the light colour of the back and the lower part of 

 the back of the neck, which, with the exception of a narrow 

 light brown dorsal stripe, is pale brownish or creamy white. 



27.— 12. 10. 31. 60. Skull and horns. Kashmir. 



