. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . enees . 26 Sierra de Gredos 23i Sierra Nevada . 23l Spain 25 Central Spain i6g Spain ioi Nr. Cordova H Val dArras 16 Southern Spain . i8| Val dArras 15A Sierra de Gredos 61 Val dArras Owner. the King of Spain. Sir Victor Brookes Collection. i Marquis de Viana.^Marquis de Villaviciosa. Abel Chapman. British Museum. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. Hon. Walter Rothschild. Lord Hindlip. E. N. Buxton. Marques Marzales. E. N. Buxton. Duke de Turancon. E. N. Buxton. OWNERS MEASUREMENTS.
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . enees . 26 Sierra de Gredos 23i Sierra Nevada . 23l Spain 25 Central Spain i6g Spain ioi Nr. Cordova H Val dArras 16 Southern Spain . i8| Val dArras 15A Sierra de Gredos 61 Val dArras Owner. the King of Spain. Sir Victor Brookes Collection. i Marquis de Viana.^Marquis de Villaviciosa. Abel Chapman. British Museum. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. Hon. Walter Rothschild. Lord Hindlip. E. N. Buxton. Marques Marzales. E. N. Buxton. Duke de Turancon. E. N. Buxton. OWNERS MEASUREMENTS. 3oi 91 23! Central Spain Abel Chapman and W. J. Buck. 29! H 23i Almeira H. Brinsley Brooke. 29I 9s 20J Sierra de Gredos Natural History Museum, Madrid 29I 8i 20J Sierra Nevada . Do. 28| iol 2S§ ? Imperial Museum, Vienna. 28£ 91 24I Sierra de Gredos Marques de la Torrecilla. 27i 9§ 201 Do. Marques de Viana. 27l°* ioi ■to Do. the King of Spain. 27l 81 201 Do. Jose del Prado. 27 10 J 201 Do. the King of Spain. 251 91 13 Spain . W. J. Buck. ? iof 51 71 Val dArras . A. E. Leatham. WESTERN TUR 381. , Western Tur or Caucasian Ibex. Shot by Mr. P. B. Vander Byl. WESTERN TUR or CAUCASIAN IBEX (Capra severtzowi). Of the two peculiar kinds of wild goats inhabiting the Caucasusand locally known as ture, the present species is easily recognised bythe approximation in the form of its horns to those of true ibex, andthe uniform chestnut-brown colour of the male in the summer coat ;the chin, beard, and lower part of the legs being dark brown. Inadults the beard, when fully developed, is long, straight, and at shoulder, about 42 inches. Distribution.—The western half of the main chain of the typical race {C. severtzowi typicd) inhabits the mountains westof Elbruz. It is the larger, and has the knots on the hornsmoderately developed. Still farther west, in the North-westernCaucasus, although somewhat overlapping the range of the first,comes Dinniks r
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