in length.

SIZE.--According to Herr Kotschy "it attains not unfrequently a
length of 6-1/2 feet." Mr. Danford measured one 5 feet 5-1/2 inches
from nose to tip of tail, 2 feet 9-1/2 inches at shoulder. (See also
Appendix C.)

I have not had an opportunity of measuring a very well-stuffed
specimen in the Indian Museum, but I should say that the Sind variety
was much smaller. Standing, as it does, beside a specimen of _Capra
Sibirica_, it looks not much bigger than some of the Jumnapari goats.
(See Appendix C.)

The _aegagrus_ is commonly supposed to be the parent stock from which
the domestic goat descended, and certainly the European and many
Asiatic forms show a similarity of construction in the horn, but the
common goat descended from more than one wild stock, for, as I have
before stated, there are goats in India, which show unmistakable
signs of descent from the markhor, _Capra megaceros_. In the article
on _Capra aegagrus_ in the 'P. Z. S.' for 1875, p. 458, by Mr. C.
G. Danford, F.Z.S., written after a recent visit to Asia Minor, it
is stated that the late Captain Hutton found it common in Afghanistan,
in the Suleiman and Pishin hills, and in the Hazarah and western
ranges. I confess I had thought the ibex of these parts to be
identical with _C. Sibirica_. Mr. Danford, describing where he met
with it, says:--

"The picturesque town of Adalia is situated at the head of the gulf
of the same name, and is the principal place in the once populous
district of Pamphylia. It is surrounded on its landward side by a
wide brushwood-covered plain, bounded on the north and north-east
by the Gok and other mountains of the Taurus, and on the west by the
Suleiman, a lofty spur of the same range, in which latter the present
specimens were collected.

"These mountains, the principal summit of which, the Akdagh (white
mountain), attains a height of 10,000 feet (_Hoskyn_), rise abruptly
from the plain and sea, and are of very imposing and rugged forms.
The pure grey tints of the marble and marble-limestone, of which they
are principally composed, show beautifully between the snowy summits,
and the bright green of the pines and darker shades of the undergrowth
of oak, myrtle and bay, which clothe their lower slopes.

"The wild goat is here found either solitary or in small parties and
herds, which number sometimes as many as 100; the largest which I
saw contained 28. It is called by the natives _kayeek_, which word,
though a