RUMINANTIA. 



CAPRA HIRCUS. 



Fig. 204. 



489 

 CAPRA. 



Portion of fossil skull and horn-cores of a Goat, j nat. size. Newer fresh-water 

 pliocene, Walton, Essex. 



CAPEA HIRCUS. Goat. 



EVIDENCE of the smaller hollow-horned ruminating ani- 

 mals is afforded by fossil jaws, teeth, and detached bones 

 of the skeleton, and in a few cases by the characteristic 

 appendages of the skull, which then serve to identify the 

 species or the genus of such fossils. 



A fragment of a lower jaw, containing one of the late- 

 ral series of six molar teeth, with a part of the skull hav- 

 ing the perfect cores of the horns attached, was discovered 

 by Mr. Brown, of Stanway, in the newer pliocene deposits 

 at Walton in Essex : these fossils were in the same con- 

 dition as the bones of the large extinct Mammalia from 

 the same formation. The jaw and teeth agreed in size 

 and configuration with the same parts in the common 



