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while in C. pyrenaica the section is pearshaped, with a sharp inward 

 projection. 



The following are true Ibices, with long horns which are curved 

 back in one plane, and have thick transverse ridges in front: G. ibex, 

 Savoy, Switzerland; C. sibirica; (7. sinaitica; G walie, Abyssinia; C. 

 aegagrus (incl. G dorcas) from Jura, Crete, Cyclades, Asia minor ; 

 hereto belongs also G. caucasica from the western Caucasus, and the 

 animal from the Elbruz. On the other hand : G pyrenaica , Iberian 

 Peninsula ; G. pallasi , eastern Caucasus ; G. falconeri s. megaceros, 

 Kashmir, are goats, with doubly curved or with lyre-shaped horns, but 

 without prominent transverse anterior ridges; while G. jemlanica, 

 Himalaya, and G. hylocrius, southern India, are Goats with small, 

 indifferent horns. 



Sus scrofa. Wild boar. 



„Jabali" or „javali" from the Arabic djabal, mountain. The 

 wild boar of the Peninsula is a common animal of the hilly and 

 mountainous forests, although it occurs also in the plains, for in- 

 stance in the pine forest of the Marismas. The term jabali is used 

 exclusively for the wild boar, never for the domesticated pig, which 

 is called cerdo (the bristly one). Po reo or puerco is not a word 

 used to ears polite, hence the willing retention of the Arabic name. 

 The Spaniards have coined the verb c e r d e a r , like t o r e a r i. e. pig- 

 or bull -fighting ; the weapon used is the j a v a 1 i n a , a spear, the proper 

 pigsticking implement. 



FrommamiBcb« Buchdrnekerei (Hermann P<>b.le) in Jena. — 1180 



