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menagerie, taken when young in Corsica. They 

 reached the ordinary size of sheep, and hred with the 

 domestic races. They became completely domesti- 

 cated, losing their great timidity; and the males 

 would even attack their keeper. They were ex- 

 tremely hardy, and required little care, and their 

 senses of hearing and sight, particularly the former, 

 were very acute. 



By the Prince of Musignano, the Musmon is 

 placed in the genus or subgenus Capra, on account 

 of the absence of the interdigital glandular hole : he 

 has thus described it : " The head is long, with the 

 muzzle compressed, the nose is somewhat raised. 

 There is a trace of a lachrymal sinus : the forehead 

 is swollen ; the ears moderately large, erecj, sharp. 

 The horns of the males are large arid long, triangular, 

 bending with an arch which constitutes more than 

 half a circle. Their bases are so extended that they 

 occupy almost all the forehead, and are separated 

 only by a small space. They are attenuated almost 

 uniformly from the base to the tip, which is obtuse ; 

 and for the whole length they are marked with trans- 

 verse wrinkles, and with raised rings. 



The chin is without a beard ; the neck is of a mo- 

 derate size, with the appearance of a dewlap be- 

 neath. The body is large and muscular ; the tail 

 very short, composed only of twelve vertebrae (where- 

 as in the domestic sheep there are nineteen or twen- 

 ty), indexed, bare on the under side. The legs are 

 pretty long, the hoofs short. 



