NILGIRI TAHR.
3 ° 3 Nilgiri Tahr o
writes as follows :•—“ I should think, from the description given to me,
that these goats were in all probability shot at a great height, between
1 500 and 2000 feet. I have no personal knowledge of the habits of the
animal, but I am informed by the Arabs that it does not go in large herds,
but in groups of a few individuals. As there appears to be a good deal of
vegetation above a certain height, it seems that they rarely, i f ever, come
down into the valleys below. I believe the same species is to be found
throughout the wholejff the hilly part of Oman ; it occurs in Jalan Shar-
keeyeh and the Jebel Akhdar range, and in all its offshoots.”
In both the British Museum specimens the horns are much worn, as
if by rubbing against rocks or trees.
4 . T he N il g ir i T ah r— H em it r a g u s hylocrius
Kemas hylocrius, Ogilby, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1837, p. 81 ; Flower and Garson,
Cat. Osteol. Mas. Coll. Surg. pt. ii. p. 254 (1884).
Capra (Ibex) warryato, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x. p. 267
(1842).
Capra warryato, Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 168 (1843).
Hemitragus warryato, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 31 (1850).
Kemas warryato, Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 146 (1852), Cat.
Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1872).
Hemitragus hylocrius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxviii. p. 291
(1859) ; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. p. 288 (1867) ; M ‘Master, Notes on Jerdon’s
Mamm. p. 1 1 7 (1870) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind.—Mamm. p. 5 1 1 (1891) ;
Ward, Records o f Big Game, p. 231 (1896).
Capra (Hemitragus) hylocrius, Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. p. 451 (1884).
Capra hylocrius, P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 318 ; W. L.
Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 146 (1891).