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required to support. The head is not much length- 

 ened, and the horns always bent backwards, are 

 larger in proportion than those of any other known 

 ruminant. The tail is very short, while the lower 

 jaw is furnished with a lengthened beard. The 

 head is carried high, the look is fixed, the move- 

 ments rapid, and the whole carriage bold and easy. 

 These are the appearances which at first strike an 

 observer, but, on a narrower inspection, we per- 

 ceive that the horns are of a triangular form, covered 

 with transverse ridges. There is no lachrymal 

 sinus. The nostrils are not placed in a naked 

 muzzle. The face is covered with long and thick 

 silky but loose hair, extremely soft. 



Two specimens were possessed by the Parisian 

 Menagerie ; the one was of a greyish-brown, the other 

 of a greyish-yellow colour. The last is represented 

 in Fred. Cuvier's great work, and has served for our 

 copy here. They lived for several years, and ex- 

 nibited the same manners with the domestic goats. 



