. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . /♦r Skull and Horns of Arabian Ibex. Shot by Major W. Merewether. ,5. and C—-S. ARABIAN and SINAITIC RACES (C. nubiana mengesi and sinaitica). Lengthon frontcurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Locality. Owner. 50 9 Southern Arabia Capt. J. T. Brinkley. 42 7i Arabia East India Club. 414 8 l6b Do. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart 39i 8| 19I South-East Arabia Hon. Walter Rothschild. 3§i 7h 12 Sinai R. Hayne. 37f 7 i3i Do. Capt. C. P. Hey wood. 374 6i 12 Do. P. Swan. 36| 74 9i Do. W. H. Totti
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . /♦r Skull and Horns of Arabian Ibex. Shot by Major W. Merewether. ,5. and C—-S. ARABIAN and SINAITIC RACES (C. nubiana mengesi and sinaitica). Lengthon frontcurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Locality. Owner. 50 9 Southern Arabia Capt. J. T. Brinkley. 42 7i Arabia East India Club. 414 8 l6b Do. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart 39i 8| 19I South-East Arabia Hon. Walter Rothschild. 3§i 7h 12 Sinai R. Hayne. 37f 7 i3i Do. Capt. C. P. Hey wood. 374 6i 12 Do. P. Swan. 36| 74 9i Do. W. H. Tottie. 36| 7 10 Do. P. A. Kennedy. ? i°l 3i 2i Do. W. E. Pease. 49439 OWNERS MEASUREMENTSSouthern ArabiaSinai Major W. Merewether. (See illustration.)Capt. L. Buxton. 376 RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Skull and Horns of Sind Wild Goat. From a specimen presented by the lateMr. A. O. Hume to the British Museum. The PASANG or WILD GOAT (Capra hircus). The horns of the wild goat (C. hircus cegagrus) of the Caucasus andpersia—which is the ancestral form of the domesticated goat of Europeand Asia {C. hircus)—differ from those of the various species of ibexby having no distinct front surface, but merely a sharp notched keel,representing the inner front angle of the ibex horn. In old malesthe beard is very long. The general colour of the upper-parts is brownishgrey in winter and reddish brown in summer, while the under-partsare white, and there are blackish brown and white markings on thebody, face, and limbs. Height at shoulder reaching to 37 inches. The so-called Sind ibex (C. hircus blythi) forms a second local raceof the species, inhabiting Sind and parts of Baluchistan, where it prob-ably passes imperceptibly into the Caucasian race. It is distinguishedmainly by a slight differenc
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