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VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS. 



tamed, and becomes a great favorite. The Chamois, 

 of the high mountains of Western Europe, is about 

 the size of a goat, of a dark brown color, and its horns, 

 towards the summit, are bent backwards like a hook. 

 It is very shy, and on the slightest alarm bounds 

 swiftly away over rocks, glaciers, along dizzy heights, 

 up and down precipices, where it would seem no ani- 

 mal could get a foothold, often leaping upon a rock 

 just large enough to receive its four feet placed close 

 together. 



SHEEP AND GOATS. 



Sheep have the horns angular and directed back- 



Fig. 66. Mountain Sheep, or Big-Horn. 

 ward, then spirally curved forward, and yellowish- 



