CAPRA HIRCUS. 489 
RUMINANTTIA. CAPRA, 
Fig. 204, 
Portion of fossil skull and horn-cores of a Goat, } nat. size. Newer fresh-water 
pliocene, Walton, Essex. 
CAPRA HIRCUS. Goat. 
Evinence of the smaller hollow-horned ruminating ani- 
mals is afforded by fossil jaws, teeth, and detached bones 
of the skeleton, and in a few cases by the characteristic 
appendages of the skull, which then serve to identify the 
species or the genus of such fossils. 
A. fragment of a lower jaw, containing one of the late- 
ral series of six molar teeth, with a part of the skull hay- 
ing the perfect cores of the horns attached, was discovered 
by Mr. Brown, of Stanway, in the newer pliocene deposits 
at Walton in Essex: these fossils were in the same con- 
dition as the bones of the large extinct Mammalia from 
the same formation. The jaw and teeth agreed in size 
and configuration with the same parts in the common 
