NATURAL 
The male bouquetin is larger 
than the tame goat, but refembles 
it much in. the outer form. ‘The 
head is fmall in proportion to the 
body, with the muzzle thick, com- 
prefied, and a little arched. The 
eyes are large, round, and have 
much fire and brilliancy. The 
horns large, when of a full fize 
weighing fometimes 16 or 18 
pounds, flatted before and rounded 
behind, with one or two longitudi- 
nal ridges, and many tranfverfe 
ridges; which degenerate towards 
the tip into knobs; the colour dufky 
. brown. The beard long, tawny, or 
dufky. The legs flender, with the 
hoofs fhort, hollow on the infide, 
and on the outfide terminated by a 
falient border, like thofe of the 
chamois. ‘The body fhort, thick, 
and ftrong. ‘The tail fhort, naked 
underneath, the reft covered with 
long hairs, white at the bafe and 
fides, black above and at the end. 
Space under the tail in fome tawny, 
in others white. The coat long, 
but not pendent, afh-ccloured, 
mixed with fome hoary hairs: a 
black lift runs along the back; and 
there is a black fpot above and be- 
low the knees. Its colour, how- 
ever, like that of other animals, 
muft neceflariiy vary according to 
its age and local circumftances. 
The female has been little noticed 
among naturalifts. She is one third 
Jefs than the male, and not fo cor- 
pulent: her colour is lefs tawny: 
her horns are very fmall, and not 
above eight inches long. In thefe, 
and in her figure, fhe refembles a 
goat that has been caftrated whilft 
young. She has two teats, like the 
tame fhe-goat, and never has any 
beard, unlefs, perhaps, in an ad- 
vanced age. The young ones are 
of a dirty grey colour, and the lift 
‘the fummit. 
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along the back is fearcely difcern- 
ible. Parte 
There isa ftuffed fpecimen of the 
male bouquetin of the Alps in Mr. 
Parkinfon’s, late Sir Afhton Lever’s, 
Mufeum, of which I have here given 
fome of the principal dimenfions, 
as they are not to be found in any 
author that has fallen under my 
obfervation, except in Buffon’s Hif- 
toire Naturelle; and thofe wére 
taken by Mr. Daubenton from a 
young fubject. 
In a ftate of tranquillity, the 
bouquetin commonly carries the 
head low; but in running holds it 
high, and even bends it a little 
forward. He mounts a perpendi- 
cular rock of fifteen feet’ at ,three 
leaps, or rather three fucceflive 
bounds of five feet each. It does 
not {feem as if he found any footing 
on the rock, appearing to touch it 
merely to be repelled, like an elaftic 
fubftance ftriking againft a hard 
body. He is not fuppofed to take 
more than three fucceffive leaps in 
this manner. If he is between two 
rocks which are near each other, 
and wants to reach the tep, he leaps 
from the fide of one rock to the 
other alternately, till he has attained 
He alfo traverfes the 
glaciers with rapidity; but only 
when purfued, for otherwife he a- 
voids them. 
The bouquetins feed, during the 
night, in the higheft woods: but 
the {un no fooner begins to gild the 
fummits, than they quit the woody 
region, and mount, feeding in their 
progrefs, till they have reached the 
molt confiderable heights, They 
betakke themfelves to the fides of 
the mountains which face the eaft or 
fouth, and lie down in the higheft 
places and hotteft expofures: but 
when the fun has finifhed more than 
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