e horns are the
same as the others. Kinloch remarks that a nearly black male ibex
has been shot to the north of Iskardo.

NO. 448. CAPRA AEGAGRUS.
_The Wild Goat of Asia Minor_.

NATIVE NAMES.--_Pasang_ (male), _Boz_ (female), generally
_Boz-Pasang_, Persian (_Blanford_); _Kayeek_ in Asia Minor
(_Danford_).

HABITAT.--Throughout Asia Minor from the Taurus mountains; through
Persia into Sindh and Baluchistan; and in Afghanistan. M. Pierre de
Tchihatchef, late a distinguished member of the Russian Diplomatic
Service, and well known as an author and a man of science, whose
acquaintance I had the pleasure of making some time ago in Florence,
found these goats most abundant on the Aladagh, Boulgerdagh and
Hussandagh ranges of the Taurus. He made a very good collection of
horns and skulls there, which are now in the Imperial Museum, St.
Petersburg. Captain Hutton found it in Afghanistan.

DESCRIPTION.--Hair short and brown, becoming lighter in summer; a
dark, almost black line down the back; the males have a black beard;
the young and females are lighter, with fainter markings; the horns
are of the usual ibex type, but there is a striking difference between
those of this species and all the others. As a rule the ibex horn
is triangular in section, that is, the front part of the horn is
square, with transverse knobs at short intervals all the way up, for
about three-fourths of the length, whereas the horn of _C. aegagrus_
is more scimitar-like, flattish on the inner side and rounded on the
outer, with an edge in front; the sides are wavily corrugated, and
on the outer edge are knobs at considerable distances apart. It is
believed that an estimate of the age of the animal can be made by
these protuberances--after the third year a fresh knob is made in
each succeeding one. Mr. Danford says: "The yearly growths seem to
be greatest from the third to the sixth year, the subsequent
additions being successively smaller." The horns sometimes curve
inwards and sometimes outwards at the tips. Mr. Danford figures a
pair, the tips of which, turning inwards, cross each other. The
female horns are shorter and less characteristic. The size of the
male horns run to probably a maximum of 50 inches. There is a pair
in the British Museum 48-1/2 inches on the curve. Mr. Danford's best
specimen was 47-1/2, the chord of which was 22-1/2, basal
circumference 9-3/4, weight 10-1/4 lbs. Captain Hutton's living
specimen had horns 40-1/2 inches