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which were famous in Persia as a cure for poison, 

 and their reputation spreading westward, the demand 

 was supplied by concretions from the intestines of 

 other animals, especially the llama. 



Goats are mountain-loving creatures, and we fiud 

 them inhabiting most of the mountain ranges of the 



Fig. 52.— The Sable Antelope. (Photo, from life.) 



northern hemisphere. There are ibexes in the 

 Pyrenees, the Alps, the Caucasus, and the mountains 

 of Crete, Palestine and Afghanistan. 



The collection of sheep, goats and antelopes from 

 various localities exhibited in the Zoological Gardens, 

 London, always affords ample opportunity for study- 

 ing the distinctive features of these three nearly 

 allied groups of animals. 



