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body ; but is like the cow in the formation of the bones 

 of its head ; and its horns are permanent ajs the goat's : 

 it is very common in Barbary, and has frequently been 

 mistaken for the Barbary cow. 



The second anomalous animal of the goat kind is the 

 condoma, which is equal in size to the largest stag, the 

 horns of which are three feet long, and at the extre- 

 mity two in width : entirely along the back there rims 

 a white list, which is crossed by others that pass round 

 the body, and terminate at the end of the tail. 



The third is the guiba, which differs from the gazells 

 by the hair under the belly being brown instead of white; 

 its horns likewise are not marked with annular promi- 

 nences ; but, like the condoma, the body is covered 

 with several broad white stripes. 



The African wild goat is the fourth variety, the co- 

 lour of which is a dark ash, and in the middle of the 

 head is a tuft of thick hair, which sticks out, or rather 

 stands upright: on both sides of the head, between the 

 eyes and the nose, are cavities which contain a liquor 

 in appearance like oil, but which in time coagulates 

 into a black substance, and then has a smell between 

 civit and musk. To this may be added the chevrotin, 

 or the little Guinea deer ; a creature which, for beauty 

 and symmetry of form, is not to be exceeded in the 

 animal race : in height it is allowed to be about seven 

 inches, and twelve from the point of the nose to the 

 insertion of the tail ; its legs are not much thicker than 

 the shank of a tobacco-pipe, and it appears exactly 

 like the miniature of a stag, if we except the shape of 

 the horns: its colour is no less beautiful than its 

 fchape, for the hair is as bright as the most polished 

 gold ; and the whole body takes that hue, all but the 

 belly and throat, both of which arc delicately white : 



