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line on the anterior part of the legs and along the back ; and 

 as having very large horns bent in a half circle.* 



The JEGAGRUS, Capra JEgagrus of Pallas, inhabits the 

 mountain chains of Western Asia, from the Caucasus east- 

 ward, by the countries of the Caspian, to an unknown dis- 

 tance, and southward, through the high lands of Persia and 

 Caubul, into Hindostan. It is the Pazan of the Persians ; and 

 is believed to be one of the animals which yield the concre- 

 tion termed Bezoar, to which certain healing virtues are 

 ascribed by the Orientals. It resembles the common Goats 

 in its general form : it has very large horns, sometimes want- 

 ing in the females, of a brown ashy colour, marked with 

 tubercles, and sharp at the anterior edge, bending backward 

 and turning outward at the points. The hair of the body is 

 a grayish-brown, with a dark ridge along the spine, extend- 

 ing to the termination of the tail. The beard, of a rufous 

 colour, is long in the male, but shorter in the female, and 

 coarse hairs extend from the throat down the breast. This 

 creature is exceedingly wild, but inhabits a lower range of 

 altitude than the Ibex. It is numerous in the higher parts 

 of Asia Minor, and is believed by many naturalists to be the 

 parent stock of most of the domestic Goats ; and by some to 

 be the common Goat restored to a state of liberty. 



The JEMLAH GOAT, Capra Jemlahica of Colonel Hamilton 

 Smith, is found in the most elevated parts of Central Asia. 

 It is described by this eminent naturalist, from a skin trans- 

 mitted to the British Museum, as being nearly of the size of 

 the Ibex, and as having the horns nearly in contact at the 

 base, of a pale ashy-buff colour, nodose, very depressed, nine 

 inches long, bending outwards, then turning suddenly, so as 

 to meet nearly over the neck. The bones of the head are 

 dense and ponderous, the tail is very short, and there is no 

 true beard. The colour of the hair, with the exception of 

 some darkish streaks, is a dull light fawn, with locks of 



* Colonel Hamilton Smith. 



