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no man can attend above fifty goats at a time ; flesh of the 

 goat found to improve between the tropics ; remarkable va- 

 rieties in this kind ; that of Natolia, by M. Buffon called 

 goat of Angora ; its description ; the Assyrian goat, of 

 Gesner ; chiefly kept about Aleppo ; little goat of America, 

 the size of a kid ; has hair as long as the ordinary breed ; 

 Juda goat, not larger than a hare ; common in Guinea, 

 Angola, and the coast of Africa ; blue goat at the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; its description, 266. Boundaries between 

 the goat and deer kind difficult to fix ; Bezoar goat, the 

 pasan, found in the mountains of Egypt, &c. 280. African 

 vaild goat of Grimraius, fourth anomaly of the kind; its 

 description, 290. Goats eat four hundred and forty-nine 

 plants, and reject a hundred and twenty-six, 369. In 

 Syria, remarkable for their fine glossy, long, soft hair, 398. 



Goat-sucker, a nocturnal swallow; description and habits, 

 iv. 280. 



Gobius, the gudgeon, description of this fish, v. 120. 



Godwit, its dimensions, iv. 340. A bird of passage, 344-. 



Gold never contracts rust, and why ; except in places where 

 much salt is used, i. 267. 



Golden-eye, bird of the duck kind, iv. 420. 



Goldfinch, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 256. Learns a song 

 from the nightingale, 280. 



Goose, marks of the goose kind ; food ; abstained from by the 

 ancients, as indigestible, iv. 404. One known to live a hun- 

 dred years, 413. Marks of the tame and wild sort; wild 

 supposed to breed in the northern parts of Europe ; flight 

 regularly arranged, 414. 



Goose, (Brent) most harmless, but for their young pursue 

 dogs and men ; use of its feathers in beds unknown in 

 countries of the Levant and Asia; feathers a considerable 

 article of commerce ; different qualities of them ; the best 

 method of curing them, iv. 415. 



Goose, (Soland) described, iv. 375. See Gannet. 



Gooseander, a round-billed water-fowl, its description ; feeds 

 upon fish, 403. 



Goss-hawk, of the baser race of hawks, iv. 95. Taught to fly 

 at game; little obtained from its efforts, 107. 



Gouan, his system of fishes deserves applause for more than 

 its novelty ; how followed in arranging the spinous class of 

 fishes, v. 115. 



Grampus, fierce and desperate in defence of its young ; re- 

 markable instance, v. 30. Description and habits, 56. 



Grasshopper, differences between ours and the cicada of the 

 ancients ; great varieties of this animal in shape and colour ; 

 description of the little grasshopper that breeds plentifully 

 in meadows, and continues chirping through the summer ; 

 the male of this tribe only vocal; how their fecundation is 



