The Angora Goat,1 is of opinion that the long silky hair of that breed
—the mohair of commerce—represents an excessive development o f the
pashm of the Kashmir and wild goatiS the-so-called “ kemp” of the
Angora being the remnant of the ordinary hair of the original outer coat
of the former.
5. T he A r a b ia n I bex- ^ B . p r a n ub ian a
Capra nubiana, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. fasc. vii. pi. 397 (1825) ;
Gray, Knows ley Menagerie, p. 32 (1850), Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. I f . 151
(1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1872) ; Ward, Records o f Big
Game, p. 230 (1896) ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. vol. iv. p. 85
(1897). •
Capra sinaitica, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. P h fi,j Z o S vol. i.
pi. xviii. (1828) ; P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. S f f 1886, p. 3.16, pi. xxxii. ;
W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 144 (189 1) ; Ward, Records
o f Big Game, p. 229 (1896).
Capra arabica, Ruppell, Neue Wirbilth. Abyssin. p. 17 (1835) ; Flower
and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. Coll. Surg. pt. ii. p. 249 (1884). -
Mgoceros beden, Wagner, SchTtbex’s Saugethiere, vol. v. p. 1303 (1836),
Capra beden, Blasius, Saugeth. Deutschlands, p. 482 1(1857) ; Tristram,
Proc, Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 85, Fauna Palestine, p. 6, pi. ii. (1884).
Capra mengesi, Noack, Zool. Anzeiger,, 1896, p. 353 ; see P. L. Sclater,
Prof^. Zool, Soc. 1897, p. 900.
Characters.— Build moderately stout; height at shoulder about 33 inches;
Horns scimitar-like, very long, slender, and highly curved ; the outer front
angle bevelled off and the front surface relatively narrow, with a large
number of rather closely approximated transverse knot-like ridges of somewhat
large size. Ears relatively long, margined with white. Beard long,
pointed, and occupying the full width o f the chin. A little longish hair below
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the middle of the nape of the neck, and the hair on the middle line of the
back also somewhat elongated, elsewhere the pelage short and close.
General cojour of upper-parts brownish or yellowish-fawn, probably varying
F ig. 51.-—Head of male Arabian Ibex from Hadramut, South-Eastern Arabia.
(From Sclater, Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 900.)
somewhat according ||f. the season of the year ; muzzle, chin, beard,
flanks, chest, nape-tuft, dorsal line, sides of tail, and outer side and front
of legs (except knees and pasterns)-blackish-brown or black; inner sides
of thighs and buttocks, a streak on the abdomen, the inner sides and back of
hind-legs below the hocks, most of the corresponding surfaces-of the fore-legs,