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The Sakeen. Capra Himalayana. 
Brownish grey colour, with dorsal stripe, band on the shoulders, and the anterior part of the limbs 
dark brown or black ; tail and beard black. 
Cayra Himalayana, Schinz.— Verz. ii. 463, XM'd.—Mgoceros Sky n,^d^gViQv.— Himalayan Ibex or Skeen, Hut- 
ton, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 542. — Sky and I'Danma, Moorcroft, J. A. S. Calcutta, 1839, 928. v. 242. — 
Skyn, Skeen, Saken or Siken, in Thibet— Kyi, in Kashmir, Vigne, Travels, i. 311. —Copra Sakeen, Blyth, 
P. Z. S. 1840, 80 ; Journ. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta. 
Inhabits Himalayan ; Little Thibet. Horns in Brit. Mus. 
Horns are much longer and considerably less divergent, and resemble those of the Egyptian Idea? in 
curvature, excepting towards the base. They are less massive than the Swiss Idea?, the middle part being 
narrower, and the tips, which incline more abruptly somewhat forward and inward, are much more atte- 
nuated or drawn out. Length 4 feet 6 inches over the curvature and 10 inches round the base, diverging 
1 foot 11 inches asunder at nearly three-fourths their length, and I foot 4 inches apart at the tip; at a 
distance of 1 foot 8 inches from the base inside they were 4 inches deep, 2 feet 6 inches broad in front at 
the base : length of skull 1 foot. Beard not small, as first described by Mr. Blyth, but forms a large con- 
spicuous tuft, as in C. yEgagm, C. Jaela and others {Blytli). It yields the delicate silky wool called poshm 
{Vigne). 
The BoRz. Capra Borz. 
Horns long, with broad knobs in front ; chin bearded. 
Gafra Mgagrus, Hutton, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 521. t. \9.—Borz of the Affghans.— /^i/i Goat of AfF- 
ghanistan. 
Inhabits mountain districts of Alfghanistan ; Persia. Perhaps the same as the former. 
Horns of the Ibew are attached to the Zearuts and places of sacred note in Affghanistan. — BengalJourn. 
1841, 978. 
The TuRS have very large subtriangular horns, with transverse tubercles, very thick at the base, and 
conically attenuated, acute and greatly converging at the tip. 
The Pyrenean Ibex. Capra Pyrenaica. 
Horns thick, rather triangular, rounder and nodose in front, keeled behind : fur brown ; sides ashy 
brown ; sides of head black brown ; beard, dorsal line, upper part of tail, front of neck and front 
of feet and middle streak beneath black or ashy black, 
Capra Pyrenaica, Schinz, Nov. Mem. Soc. Helv. Sci. Nat. ii. t. 1. f. 1, 2, skull, 1836 ; t. 2, animal and horns ; 
t. 3, skull; t. 4, young; Verz. ii. 457. 
Inhabits S. Europe; Pyrenees. Brit. Mus. 
The Caucasian Ibex or Tur. Capra Caucasica. 
" Wool chestnut-brown ; beard of male long ; horns black, wrinkled, moderately thick, semicircular 
behind and descending externally, the tip turning upwards and inwards, the base almost triangu- 
lar, middle roundish, end compressed. Female with no beard ; horns small, with a slight curve." 
Capra Caucasica, Guldens. — Pallas, Act. Petrop. 1779, ii. 273. LIT a,h (female and head of male), cop. 
Schreb. Saugth. t. 281 b. — Keyserlin and Blasius, Wirbelth. Eur. 28. — Mgoceros Amman, Pallas, Zool. 
Ross. Asiat. 229, t. . — Ovis cylindricornis, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1840, 78.— Capra Mgoceros Pallasii, Rouilher, 
Bull. Mosc. 1841, 910. t. 11.— Wagner, Suppl. 497.— Schinz, Nov. Mem. Soc. Helv. Sci. Nat. ii. t. 1, ani- 
mal. — Verz. ii. 459. 
Inhabits Caucasus. 
The Goats have recurved (or rarely subspiral), very compressed horns, with a narrow, sharp nodose keel 
in front, and flattish shelving outer side. 
The Goat. Capra Hircus. 
Grey or reddish grey, sides reddish, brown mixed ; front of head, dorsal line and tail black. Female 
horn none or rudimentary. 
Capra hircus. Linn. S. N. — C. Mgagus, Gmelin, Schinz, Nov. Mem. Soc. Helv. S. N. ii. 1. 1, skull, 1838.— Cuv. 
Menag. Mus. t. (hybrid.?). — Mgagre, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. <? ? and young. — Capricorne, BufFon, H. N. 
xii. 146. t. Capra Capricornus, Meyer, ErxL— C. Mgagrus, Pallas, Spic. Z. xi. 45. t. 5. f. 2, 3, skull 
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