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Goat. Sheep. 



Horns of medial size, keeled, "I Horns very large, not keeled, and 



and turned upwards. j turned to the sides. 



Eye darker and keener. Paler and duller. 



Hair long and unequal. Short and equal. 



Back arched. Back straight. 



Bears change of climate well. Bears it ill. 



Is eminently curious, capricious, "1 , . . ^ ., j .• -j 



and confident. / ^' incurious, staid, and tiraid. 



Barkstrees with its horns, feed--) ^-^ ^ y. ^ ^ j • i 



ing on the peel, and on aro- I °'"\^!^°' A '; " '" 



matic herbs J addicted to aromatics. 



In fighting rears itself on its 

 hind legs and lets the weight 

 of its body fall on the adver- 

 sary. 



In fighting runs a- tilt, adding 

 the force of impulse to that of 

 weight. 



The Goat and Sheep have in common, hair and wool; no beard; 

 no suborbital sinuses ; evanescent muzzle; no inguinal pores ; horns 

 in contact at the top of the head ; knees and sternum callous ; an- 

 gular and transversely wrinkled horns ; striated ears ; two teats 

 only in the females ; horns in both sexes ; and, lastly, incisors of 

 precisely the same form. 



" Of the various diagnostics, then, proposed by Col. Hamilton 

 Smith, it would seem that the following only can be perfectly relied 

 on to separate Ovis from Capra : slender limbs ; longer pointed ears ; 

 chafFron arched ; nares long and oblique ; very voluminous horns, 

 turned laterally with double flexures. I should add myself, the 

 strong and invariable distinction, — males not odorous, — as opposed 

 to the males odorous of the genus Capra. But, after all, there are 

 no physical distinctions at all equivalent to the moral ones so finely 

 and truly delineated by Buffon, and which, notwithstanding what 

 Col. H. Smith urges in favour of the courage and activity of Sheep, 

 will, for ever, continue to be recognised as the only essential dia- 

 gnostics of the two genera." 



September 23, 1834. — A letter was read, addressed to the Se- 

 cretary by John Hearne, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., and dated Port 

 au Prince, July 16, 1834. It accompanied a present of " an Alligator 

 from the river Artiboniti," which is referrible to the Crocodilus acutus, 

 Cuv. ; and of some Doves. These are the little Ground Dove or Or- 

 tolan of the English residents in Hayti, Columba passerina, Linn. ; and 

 the red-legged Partridge, as it is called in that island, Col. mystacea, 

 Temm. Mr. Hearne adverts to some other animals which he has 

 observed in Hayti, and expresses his hopes of succeeding in bring- 

 ing or sending them to England. 



The Secretary adverted to some other animals lately added to the 

 Menagerie, and which he regarded as interesting either in a scien- 

 tific point of view, or on account of their not having been previously 

 contained in the collection. They included the silky Monkey, Midas 

 Rosalia, Geoff., of which a specimen has recently been presented by 

 T. Manton, Esq. ; the Javanese Ichneumon, Herpestes Javanicus, 



