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sures 52 inches. It is however of very peculiar form 

 and colour, though an undoubted Ibex, and I have 

 called it Capra Dauvergnii, after Mons. Dauvergne of 

 Srinagar, as a tentative measure pending the discovery 

 of similar specimens in the same locality which would 

 entitle it to the distinction of a separate species or 

 variety ; nevertheless, as it stands, it is a specimen 

 unique and extremely curious. There is none like it in 

 either the British Museum or the Imperial Museum in 

 Calcutta. There is one more head in this collection 

 which was sent to me as coming from the same locality, 

 Baltistan, and supposed to be of the same variety but 

 though the colour of the horn is similar, and this is not 

 due to age or smoke as the animal was freshly killed, 

 yet the horn is knobbed like the ordinary Ibex and not 

 in folds as in the type of Dauvergnii. There is how- 

 ever the same tendency to diverge at the points. 



No. 23.— Capra iEgagrus.— The Sindh, or Per- 

 sian Ibex. 



Habitat. — Throughout Asia Minor from the Taurus 

 Mountains, through Persia into Sindh and Beluchistan. 



