26 Domesticated Animals. 



The following list includes the more important of the specimens 

 exhibited. 



The English Goat is represented by the hejvd of a female, ' White 

 Queen,' a first prize winner, presented by Mr. R. Walter in 1001 ; 

 while of the Anglo-Swiss breed a complete female specimen, ' the 

 Black Arrow,' presented by Mr. H. Greenway in 1901, is shown. Of 

 the Goats that have reverted to a wild state, there is the head of a 

 male with black hair from Scotland, presented by Mr. Cecil Grenfell 

 in 1897 ; and also two heads of the white variety from Skye, 

 presented by Sir Donald Carrie, K.C.M.G. 



The Tibetan Shawl-Goat is represented by the horns of a male 

 from Ladak, presented by Gen. Strachey in 1879 ; and likewise by 

 skulls given by Mr. Brian Hodgson in 1848. To the hist-named 

 donor the collection owes the skull and horns of a male of the 

 Circassian Goat ; while a second specimen of the same, from Turkey, 

 was presented by Capt. S. S. Flower in 1904. Both these show the 

 reversjil of the spiral, as compared with ordinary Goats. 



For many years a report was current as to the existence of an 

 ' Antelope-like ' Wild Goat in the mountains of the Azores. Thanks 

 to Major Chaves, of the Ponte Delgada Museum, the collection now 

 includes a pair of male skulls with horns, which prove that the 

 animal is a true Goat, probably the descendant of domesticated breeds 

 which have run wild. The horns, which are about a couple of feet 

 in length in both skulls, are, however, remarkably straight and 

 upright, their inner edges being almost in contact in one example 

 for a distance of about 8 inches, although they dfverge lower 

 down, while m both they assume the open spiral characteristic of 

 Goats generally towards the tips. It is this unusual uprightness 

 and straightness of the horns that led to the idea that the Azores 

 Wild Goat had an affinity to Antelopes. 



A male of the Joura Goat, from the Isle of Joura, received from 

 the Zoological Society in 1903, shows that the markings of this 

 breed closely resemble those of the wild Cairra hircm cegaijrusi, which 

 formerly inhabited many of the islands of the ^gean Archipelago, 

 and is still found in Crete, Asia Minor, Persia, etc. The skull of 

 a male Goat from Grand Comoro Island, Mozambique Channel, 

 presented by Sir John Kirk, K.C.B., in 1871, is of interest as showing 

 the wide range of breeds nearly related to those of Europe. Much 

 the same may be stated with regard to a female Bomean Domesticated 

 Goat from Sarawak, Borneo, sent home by Dr. C. Hose in 1903. 

 Of the Angora Goat, the collection includes a fine male sjjecimen 

 from Constantinople, presented by Mr. J. E, Whittall in 1901 ; ancj 



