58 PECORA. THE SHEEP TRIBE. 



39. THE COMMON GOAT. Horns arched and carinated. 

 Capra cegagrus hircus. Linn. 



Not known in a wild state in any part of Great Britain or 

 Ireland. 



Capra cornibus carinatis arcuatis. Capra (cegagrus) 

 hircus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. gen. 30, sp. 1, var. /?. p. 

 193. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 28, sp. I, var. . 

 p. 256. 



Capra cegagrus, var. 2. Domestic Goat. Turton, i. 

 p. 116. 



Capra hircus @. Common Goat. Kerr, p. 321. 



Hircus et capra domestica. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 

 52. 



Tragus domesticus, hircus, capra, caper si castratus. 

 Klein, quadr. disp. p. 15. 



Capra domestica. THE GOAT. Raii. Sya. quadr. p. 

 77. J 



Capra, hircus, hcedus. Gesner, p. 268. 



La Chevre. Buff. Sonn. xxiii. p. 91, tab. 4, fig. 1, 2. 



Le Bouc, et la Chevre domestique. Cuv. Tab. Element, 

 p. 164. 



Common Goat. Shaw's Gen. Zool. ii. p. 369, tab. 

 199. Bing. Anim. Biog. 3d edit. ii. p. 58. 



Domestic Goat. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 35, tab. 3. 



Goat. Smellie's Buffon, iii. p. 486, tab. 16, 17. 





THE SHEEP TRIBE. Horns hollow, transversely 

 wrinkled, turning backwards, and spirally intorted : front- 

 teeth in the lower jaw eight : no tusks. Ovis. Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. Gmel. gen. 31, i. p. 197. 



Horns unbranched, permanent. W. B. 



40. THE 



