The White Goat's Home. 



HE white goat lives above 

 timber line, among the rocks, 

 along the narrow ledges, and 

 in the fissures of towering 

 precipices, by snow fields and 

 glaciers. Really it is not a goat at all, 

 but an antelope, the analogue and not 

 distant relative of the European chamois. 

 It has horns and a beard ; and for no bet- 

 ter reason than this, the western Ameri- 



