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Show 316 MR. p. L. SCLATER O N W I L D GOATS. [May 18, AJgoceros pallasi, Bouill. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xiv. p. t. xi. (1841). This species is restricted to the Caucasian range. I have never seen living examples of it, but there are two fine stuffed male specimens in the British Museum which are labelled AUgoceros pallasi. It is a very distinct form, of a generally dark brown colour, with the thick horns curving backwards and outwards, the tips finally turning upwards and inwards. It seems to be most nearly allied to Capra pyrenaica. 5. CAPRA SINAITICA. (Plate XXXII.) Capra nubiana, Geoffr. St.-Hil. et Cuv. M a m m . vii. t. 397(1825). Capra sinaitica, Hempr. et Ehr. Symb. Phys. Zool. i. t. xviii. (1828). Capra arabica, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 1 7 (1835). AUgoceros beden, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 1303 (1836). Capra beden, Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 6, pi. ii. The Sinaitic Ibex is stated upon the best authority to be found only in the mountains of Upper Egypt and in the ranges of the Sinaitic Peninsula and Palestine \ It would be therefore perhaps better to drop the name nubiana, under which it was first described by F. Cuvier, and to employ instead "sinaitica" of Hemprich and Ehrenberg. These authors give Gebel Garab as one of its exact localities in Egypt, and Riippell states most positively that it does not occur south of 24° N. latitude in that country. Our specimen was, I believe, procured at Suakim, on the western coast of the Red Sea, and was, no doubt, brought from the mountains lying to the north of that port. The Sinaitic Ibex belongs strictly to the same group as C. ibex and C. sibirica, but has the horns rather more compressed and strongly knotted in front. 6. CAPRA WALIE. Capra walie, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth., Saugeth. i. p. 16, t. vi. This, it appears to me, is a very well-marked species, both as regards the shape of its horns and the curious bony protuberance in the middle of the forehead, pointed out by Riippell, by whom it was discovered in the highest ranges of Abyssinia. I am not aware that any specimens of this animal have been obtained except those of Riippell, which are in the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort. 7. CAPRA SIBIRICA. Ibex alpium sibiricarum, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. xi. p. 31, t. iii. Capra sibirica, Meyer, Zool. Ann. i. p. o97 (1794); Jerdon, M a m m . Ind. p. 292; Kinloch, Large Game Shooting, i. p. 145 (1885). Capra himalayana, Schinz, M a m m . ii. p. 463 (1845). It seems to be now generally agreed that the Ibex of the Altai 1 Hempr. et Ehr. Symb. Phys. l.s. c.; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. i. p. 17; Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 6. |
