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limits of the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. This goat 

 is distinguishable from other domestic breeds of the same 

 family by its small size and plumpness. Unless half starved, 

 it never shows the angular outlines of other domestic breeds. 

 The original colour was probably a pale yellow-brown, deepening 



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to black or lightening to white in the markings on the belly 

 and limbs — in short, the coloration and markings of the wild 

 Capra htrcus, which in that respect it much resembles. But 

 it frequently appears with a black, a white, or a grey pelage, 

 or may be mottled and blotched with black and white, or brown 

 and white. Still, the coloration to which it reverts over and 



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