377 



LONG-HORNED WHIDAW COAT. 



Bouc dc Juda. Buff. Svppl. 3. p. 96. pi. 13. 



IN this variety, which Button seems to consider 

 as the same with the preceding, the horns are ra- 

 ther depressed than upright, much longer, and 

 bending somewhat outwards and upwards in an 

 elegant manner at the tips: the hair is long and 

 silky, and the whole animal hears some resem- 

 blance to a small Angora Goat. Button describes. 

 it as considerably larger than the tbnner, mea- 

 suring two feet nine inches in length ; while the 

 other was only twenty-lour inches long. This 

 variety is rcpicscnted in the present work, and 

 vrms to be the kind mentioned by M. Numini, 

 in his Travels, as common in .some part*, of 1 u r \ j>t, 

 and which he says has long, thick, soft, and silky 

 hair, and slender handsomely-turned horns. 



CAPUieOKN GOAT. 



Capra Capricornua. C. conttbtu brtr&tu apice aittrorntm verm, 

 ad lattra ounulatis. Lm. Syt. Nat. Gmti. p. 195. 



Goat with short horns turning forwards at the tips, and annu- 

 lated on the sides. 



Le Capricorne. Buff. 12. p. i46.pl. 15. 



THIS variety, which is described by Button, 

 from a skeleton with the horns, preserved in the 

 royal cabinet at Paris, is supposed to be a native 

 of Africa. In the form and proportion of the 

 bones, he tells us it has a perfect resemblance to 



