254 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



by these animals, and their consequent scarcity ; 

 one specimen only of the prepared skin having 

 reached any cabinet in the world, which is that 

 at present in the Museum of the Linnean Society 

 of London, from which the plate is taken accom- 

 panying Mr. Smith's description of this animal. 

 Concerning this figure, we must here remark, that 

 though the drawing from which it has been en- 

 graved, appears to have been very spirited, never- 

 theless, as we are assured by Mr. Ord, who repeat- 

 edly examined the specimen, the direction of the 

 tail is not natural, and further, the transverse 

 wrinkles on the bases of the horns are much too 

 deep. In the horns of this animal formerly attach- 

 ed to the skin in the Philadelphia Museum, (which 

 appear to have belonged to an animal in the second 

 year of its age,) there exists no transverse wrinkles, 

 only three or four slight undulations on the ante- 

 rior base of the horns ; they are nearly four inches 

 in length, slightly recurved, perfectly black, and 

 obsoletely striated longitudinally, hollow to the 

 point ; the base of the cavity measures one inch in 

 diameter. This individual, though young, is by 

 no means destitute of long hairs, which almost 

 exclusively occupy the back, from the shoulders 

 to the tail. 



The reasons which have induced us to range 

 this animal under the genus Capra^ will be found 

 detailed below; the specific name under which 



