GENUS CAPRA. Ill 



or inguinal pores ; tail short and naked at the base, 

 chin bearded."* 



Naturalists for a long time were of opinion that 

 the -original stock of our domestic goats was to be 

 found in the Caucasian Ibex. The discovery, how- 

 ever, of another animal inhabiting the same country 

 and the Asiatic border, more similar in form, has 

 rendered it more probable that to that animal we 

 are indebted for our present races, in some cases 

 mixed with both the Caucasian and Abyssinian Ibex. 

 The animal alluded to is 



'Major Smith 



