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ferent varieties of iheep, from a couple of inches to 

 two feet and uowards, (as will be seen in this paper) 

 that no specific difference can be concluded from that. 

 But Dr. Pallas also found the parent animal of the 

 goat species in a wild state^ on the mountains of 

 Caucasus and Taurus, which he has named cegag- 

 rus, and which agrees in all efsential characters with 

 the domestic goat, particularly in the horns : but 

 this wild goat must not be confounded with the Ibex^ 

 another animal resembling the goat at first sight, 

 but widely differing from it on nearer inspection, 

 more particularly in the horns, of which I send you a 

 drawing, as well as of those of the cegagrus, [see plate 

 ijth) to be compared by the curious with one another, 

 and with those of the Siberian argali, well delineat- 

 ed in the coloured figure of the animal. The ibex, of 

 which Dr. Pallas has learnedly treated, is found on the 

 same mountains of Siberia with the argali, but inha. 

 biting a much higher region, amidst clouds and snow, 

 •whilst the wildfijeep keeps to the lower, and delights 

 in the warmth of the sun, reflected from the bare in- 

 ferior rocks, as much as the ibex does in cold. It by- 

 no means falls into the plan of this paper, to en- 

 ter further into the history of these two curious ani- 

 mals, which are both in a manner foreign to my 

 subject, and the pursuits of the society to which it is 

 addrefsed. I fhall only take the liberty to suggest a 

 doubt, ("which I hope will not offend so respectable a 

 roologist as Mr. Pennant.) Whether the three ani- 

 mals he examined were not rather the agagr us th2in\.\\Q 

 argali of Pallas ? from the circumstance of his having 

 ranked them with the goat species. If they came 



