Since the foregoing remarks were made I have had the advantage of examining
a remarkable horn-core and horn dredged from the Thames at London Wall,
and in the possession of Dr. Frank Corner. In no respect do these resemble any
known species of European Goat past or present, and I think I am entitled to
give them a name— Capra comeri. A curious feature in connection with this
new Goat is that, unlike the rest of the genus, whose horns and horn-cores are
sharply angulated on the anterior ridge, they are in this instance oval. The horn
is smooth with small annulations, and very abruptly hooked at the end. Being
found in alluvium, where substances may work either down or upwards, it is impossible
to assign the period of the existence of this Goat, but the fact that the
horn itself is still in good preservation points to a recent survival.
