Note 31 — Chapter XI · THE SPANISH IBEX.

The ibex of Asia Minor—a quite distinct species, Capra ægragus—appears, according to Mr. E. N. Buxton (Nineteenth Century, February, 1891, p. 261, et seq.), to have somewhat similar habits, frequenting the pine forests and lower wooded slopes of the hills, by preference to the treeless summits. But the Turkish mountaineer is a very different man to his Spanish representative, and appears utterly careless of the charms of the chase, seldom molesting the wild goats, whereas in Spain they are rarely left in peace while there is a chance of killing them.