T H E \V I L D G O A T, &c. 365 



The male wild goat differs from the chamois 

 in the length, thickneis, and figure of his horns. 

 His body is alio larger, and he is more vigorous 

 and ftrong. The horns of the female wild goat 

 are fmaller than thofe of the male, and have a 

 great refemblance to thofe of the chamois *. 

 Befides, the manners and difpoiitions of thefe 

 two animals are the fame, and they inhabit the 

 fame climate ; only the wild goar, being ftrong- 

 er and more agile, goes to the fummits of the 

 higheft mountains, while the chamois never rifes 

 higher than the fecond ftage j\ Bur nether of 

 them are found in the plains. Both of them 

 clear roads in the fnow, and leap from one pre- 

 cipice to another. Both are covered with a 

 firm, folid fkin, and clothed, in winter, with a 

 double fur, the external hair being coarfe, and the 

 internal finer and more buffi y J. Both of them 

 have a black band on the oack, and taiis of near- 



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* Foemina in hoc genere mire fuo minor eft, minufque 

 fufca, major Capra villatica, Rupicaprae non adeo diffimilis : 

 Cornua ei parva, et ea quoque Rupicaprae aut vulgaris caprae 

 cornibus fere iimilia ; Stumpfim apud Gefr.er, p. 305. 



f Rupes montiuin colunt Rupicaprae, non lumm.is tamen 

 ut Ibex, neque tarn alte et longe faliunt; defcendun. aliquan- 

 do ad inferiora Alpium juga; Gefner, Hiji. p. 292. 



% The chamois goa: has longer legs than the domeftic 

 kind ; but his hair is fhorter. That which covers the belly and 

 thighs is the longeft, and exceeds not four inches and a halt. 

 On the back and flanks the hair is of two kinds ; for, as in the 

 beaver, befide the long external hair, there is a very fhort, line 

 hair, concealed round the roots of the longer kind. The 

 head, the belly, and the legs, were covered with coarfe hair 

 only; Mm. pour fervlr a Vhiji. det Jnitnaux, part, i-p- 20*. 



