76^ Some Inquiries and Remarks 



IV. As thQ Rupicapra, Syheftris Hirctis^ or tXiQ Wild Goat, 

 are Words of too general a Signification to be received for the 

 y4kho\ we may rather take it for that particular Species of the 

 Wild Goat, which the LXX. and the Vulgate call the Trage- 

 laphm or the Goat 7)eer, as it may be interpreted. The Tra- 

 gelaphus has been defcribed, (7>^i;. p. 143.) under the Name 

 of FiJJjtUl or Lerwee\ and is probably the very fame Animal, 

 that was brought into this Ifland, from Barhary, about two 

 Centuries ago, and known, in Books of Natural Hiftory, by 

 the Name of Tragelaphus Caij. As then thefe Southern Coun- 

 tries afford an Animal, to whom this Name is highly applica- 

 ble; y^kko may, with Propriety enough, berendred theZ.^r?^^'^', 

 Tragelaphus or Goat "Dear. The Horns of this Species are fur- 

 rowed and wrinkled, like all others of the Goat-Kind ; being 

 a foot or fifteen Inches long, and bend over the Back, like 

 ihofe of the Ibex or Steinhuck \ notwithitanding they are much 

 fliorter and more crooked. In the Arahick Verfion, the 

 Lerwee (-a>0 is given, by Tranipofition perhaps, for the fol- 

 lowing Species or the 'Defion ; which will rather appear to be 

 the Tygarg. 

 The Defmn y 'x\^q "DeOjon then, the next in Order, is rendred, in molt 

 ^Vdacr'or Tranflations, the Tygarg. But what the Tygarg is, and what 

 the White are it's diftinguifliing Charadlerifticks, will not be fo eafily de- 

 termined. The Word itfelf feems to denote a Creature, whofe 

 hinder Parts are of a white Colour ; and may therefore be 

 equivalent, in our Language, to the White Buttocks. Such is 

 the Lidmee, which I have endeavoured to prove {Trav. p.i^g.) 

 to be the fame with the Strepficeros ' , from the wreathed 

 Fafhion of it's Horns ; as alfb the Addace ; which is fuppofed, 

 by fome Authors % to be corruptly given inftead oiAldaffem, 

 the Hebrew Name. The lidmee is, in Shape, exadtly like the 

 common Antilope \ with which it agrees in Colour and in the 

 Falliion of it's Horns ; only that, in the Former, they are of 

 twice the Length ; as the Animal itfelf is of twice the Bignefs. 

 The Skin of this Animal, and that of the Behher el wajlj, (for 



I Cornua autcm crc(fla, rugaiumque ambitu contorta & in leve faftigium exacuta, (ut 

 Lyras diceres) Strepfueroti data funr, quem Addacem Africa appellat. Plhu 1. ii. c. ^j. 



2. Strepficerotes Sic enitn ^/ri voc^nt Aldafem, telle Plinio 1. ii. c. ^7. etfi corrupte 



legimus Addacem, appellatione ex nomine Hebrao & articulo eorum depravata. apudy«?;. 

 & Tremell, Deiit. 14. y. 



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