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on the chains northward of Leh. I have examined various 

 specimens from the district lying between the latter and Iscar- 

 doh, on the Indus, none of the horns of which equalled in size 

 those of the same animal from the Cashmere ranges. A like 

 remark having been frequently made to me by both European 

 and native sportsmen, I made a note of this difference at the 

 time, and when subsequently inspecting the collection in 

 the British Mjiseum, and a fine specimen of the Cafra siberica 

 from the Altai mountains in the Derby Museum, Liverpool, 

 was struck with the similarity of the latter animal and the 

 Ladakh variety. At the same time, as they differed in no 

 other particular, I cannot see any just cause to consider the 

 latter otherwise than a race of Capra Mmalayana, which comes 

 very close to the European ibex (C ■ihex). Indeed, specimens 

 of the two are often exactly similar in every respect. 



