. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . two or four teats. Thehorns, which rise from the skull in the same plane as the forehead, curvebackward, and are angulated in front and compressed. The skull ischaracterised by its long and narrow form and the slight prominence of therims of the sockets of the eyes ; the plane of the occiput being Hat andmeeting that of the forehead at a right angle, or somev\^hat less. Hornsalways black. Distribution.—The Himalaya, the Nilgiri, Anamalai, and some of theother ranges of Southern India, and the mountains of South-Eastern Arabia ;in th
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . two or four teats. Thehorns, which rise from the skull in the same plane as the forehead, curvebackward, and are angulated in front and compressed. The skull ischaracterised by its long and narrow form and the slight prominence of therims of the sockets of the eyes ; the plane of the occiput being Hat andmeeting that of the forehead at a right angle, or somev\^hat less. Hornsalways black. Distribution.—The Himalaya, the Nilgiri, Anamalai, and some of theother ranges of Southern India, and the mountains of South-Eastern Arabia ;in the outer Himalaya dating from the Pliocene epoch. The distributionof this genus is decidedly remarkable. Its earliest known occurrence is inNorthern India ; and in former times it would appear to have existed at ornear the sea-level, at an epoch when there was a freer land communicationwith Arabia than is at present the case. With an increase in temperature,one species would appear to have taken refuge in the Himalaya, a second > Oh X CO I?wHIo ^0^. Himalayan Tahr 297 in the mountains of Southern India, and the third in those of South-EasternArabia. In habits tahr are very similar to the true goats. I. The Himalayan Tahr—Hemitragus jemlaicus Capra jciii/anica, H. Smith, in Griffiths Animal K/)/g(/ow, vo\. iv. p. 308(1827) ; P. L. Sdater, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1886, p. 317. Capra jeiNldhica, H. Smith, op. cit. vol. v. p. ^58 (1827) ; Jardine,NaturaUsfs Library—Mamin. vol. iv. p. 117 (1836). Capra j/uva/, Hodgson, Asiatic Researches., vol. xviii. pt. ii. p. 129(1833), Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1834, p. 106, Journ. As. Soc. Beiiga/, vol. 491 (1835). Capra quai/rimammis, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Benga/., vol. iv. p. 710(1835), V. p. 254 (1836). Hemitragus quac/rimammis, vel j/iara/., Hodgson, op. cit. vol. 913 (1841). Hemitragus jem/aiciis. Gray, Cat. Osteo/. Brit. Mas. p. 60 (1847),Knows/ey Menagerie, p. 32 (1850), Cat. Ungu/ata Brit. Mas. p. 144 (1852),Cat. Ruminants Br
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