102 NEIGHBORS WITH CLAWS AND HOOFS. 



The angora has been successfully raised in France, and in 

 the Southern States of this country. It is more tractable 

 and amiable in disposition than our common goat. 



4. The ibex inhabits the mountainous parts of 

 Europe, and combines the general character of the goat 

 with the fleetness of the antelope. Colonel Markham 

 says of it : " All readers of natural history are familiar 



with the wonder- 

 ful climbing and 

 leaping powers of 

 the ibex ; and al- 

 though they can not 

 (as has been describ- 

 ed in print) make a 

 spring and hang by 

 the horns until they 

 gain a footing, yet 

 in reality, for such 

 heavy animals, they 

 get over the most 

 inaccessible - looking 

 places in an almost 

 miraculous manner. 

 Nothing seems to 

 stop them, nor to impede their progress in the least. 



5. u To see a flock, after being fired at, take a distant 

 line across country, which they often do, over all sorts of 

 seemingly impassable ground, now along the naked sur- 

 face of an almost perpendicular rock, then across a formi- 

 dable land-slip, or an inclined plane of loose stones or sand, 

 which the slightest touch sets in motion, both above and 

 below, diving into chasms to which there seems no possi- 

 ble outlet, but instantly reappearing on the opposite side, 

 never deviating in the slightest from their course, tmd at 





The Common Ibex. 



