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Identifier: wildoxensheepgoa00lyde (find matches)
Title: Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Bison Muskox Mountain sheep Goats Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, R. Ward
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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. 486 (1884) ; Radde, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887,p. 552 ; \V. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mas. pt. ii. p. 142 (1891) ; Satunin,Zool. Jalirh. Syst. vol. ix. p. 311 (1896) ; Ward, Records of Big Game,p. 229 (1896). Antilope gazella, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 190 (1788), nee Capragazella, Linn. 1796. Mgoceros agagrus, Pallas, Zool. Rosso-Asiat. vol. i. p. 266 (181 i) ;Kotschy, F(7-/;. Ver. Wien, vol. iv. p. 201 (1854). Capra caucasica. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. AIus. p. 167 (1843), ^Pallas, 1783 ; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 525. Mgoceros pictits, Erhardt, Fauna Cycladen, p. 29 (1858). Capra picta, P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 689, pi. Iviii. Hircus gazella. Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. ^t^ (1872). Capra liirciis, var. tegagrns, Flo\\er and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mas. Coll.Si/rg. pt. ii. p. 251 (1884). Plate XXIII. Characters.—Build relatively slender ; height at shoulder reaching to37 inches. Horns of male scimitar-shaped, curving backwards, much X H< P-. 0. ww XCO
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Persian Wild Goat 261 compressed, with the inner front edge (which is the only one developed)sharp, keeled for some distance above the base^ and above this bearingseveral bold widely-separated knobs ; on the inside nearly flat, externallyconvex, behind rounded ; tips generally convergent, but occasionallydivergent ; throughout faintly striated ; in colour nearly black. Beardof male restricted to the chin, very long, and in old males occupyingthe whole width of the chin, but in younger animals only the middle ;together with the hair on the neck and shoulders, longest in winter, atwhich season a soft under-tur is developed in the colder parts of theanimals habitat. General ground-colour of upper-parts brownish-grayin winter, reddish-brown in summer, becoming paler in old males ;under-parts and inner sides of buttocks and thighs white or whitish ;in adult and subadult males the face, a broad streak from the nape ofthe neck to the root of the tail, the entire tail, a collar on the neck,ex
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