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C. cegagrus, Desm. Pall. The Goat. Horns forming an acute 

 angle to the front, rounded at the back, ribbed transversely ; 

 head black in front j beard brown ; general colour brown and 

 gray, varying with the seasons Mountains of Persia, &c. 



The domestic goat, (C. Hircus) the principal variety of the original breed, has 

 the horns a little more vertical than the cegagrus, and is a little smaller. It is 

 known all over Europe. The Welsh breed is of a large description, with fine long 

 hair. The Persian goat has long coarse ash-brown hair, and a large tuft of hair 

 between the horns. The dwarf goat, originally from Guinea, now extremely mul- 

 tiplied in South America and the West Indies, is distinguished by close short hair 

 more or less white with fawn colour, the males having the beard, tail, neck, and legs 

 black, and without horns. The Cachemire breed have the hair long, silky, straight 

 and white, the ears large and turned downwards ; and the Thibet or Tartar half 

 breed of the same has likewise very fine and white hair, but more subject to vary in 

 the colour. The Angora breed has long soft hair, mostly white, with buff-coloured 

 ears and yellowish horns ; the Nepavd breed has long legs and the horns short 

 and spiral, the hair long, loose, and blackish ; and the Syrian breed is blackish 

 where the hair is long, with the head, ears, legs, and belly white mottled with black. 

 In Egypt there are three varieties, one with long hair, a second with spiral horns 

 and ears longer than the beard ; and a third with very large ears and the horns 

 small or none. But, like other domesticated animals, the goat runs into endless 

 varieties. 



C. Jemlachica, Smith. The Jemlah Goat. Horns placed oblique- 

 ly on the frontal bone, high above the orbits, almost in contact, 

 depressed, nearly flat, nine inches long, inclining outwards, then 

 tapering and turning inwards ; anterior edge marked with seven 

 small protuberances ; fur cinereous fawn-coloured, with abundant 

 long hair ; a dark line down the face and along the spine. Size 

 of the Ibex, Himalayah Mountains Griff, iv. 308. 



Gen. 143. Ovis, Lin. Cuv. Geoff. Desm. 



Incisors , canines g-g, molars -| = 32. Horns common to 

 both sexes, sometimes wanting in the female, thick, angular, 

 wrinkled transversely, pale coloured, turned laterally in a 

 spiral form ; ears small ; legs slender ; hair of two kinds ; 

 tail more or less short ; two mammae. 



O. tragelaphus, Desm. The Bearded Sheep, Penn. Horns two 

 feet long, wrinkled, angular, black, turned spirally backwards and 

 downwards ; a large beard from the cheeks and under jaw di- 

 vided into two lobes ; neck short, with a mane ; knees covered 

 with long hair ; general colour rufous brown ; tail short. Five 

 feet nine inches long. Inhabits Barbary Shaw, ii. pi. 202. 



O. montana, Geoff. American Argali. Horns very thick, of a spi- 

 ral form, directed laterally ; colour brown chestnut, formed of 

 short dry hairs ; a white disc on the rump ; no mane. Inhabits 

 Canada. Griff, iv. 318. 



O. Ammon, Desm. (Capra Ammon y Lin.) The Argali. Horns of 

 the male very large and strong, sometimes four feet long, placed 

 on the summit of the head, triangular, flattened before, striated 

 across ; female with slender wrinkled horns ; colour fulvous gray 

 above, white below, with white on the muzzle, and a whitish 



