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Hungarian buck. They are fo tranfparent, that 

 they are ufed for the Lime purpofes as fhells. 

 In natural diipolitions, the faiga has a greater 

 refemblance to the antilopes than to the wild 

 and chamois goats ; for he does not frequent 

 the mountains, but, like the antilopes, lives on 

 the hills and plains. Like them, he is extreme- 

 ly fwift, and his motion confifts of bounds or 

 leaps. His flefti is alfo better than that of either 

 the wild or domeftic goat. 



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adds to what M. Gmelin has remarked, that the faiga goes 

 backward when he feeds. . . . That their horns are pur- 

 chafed by the Chinefe to make lanthorns. . . . That they are 

 only found under the 54th degree of latitude ; and that, in 

 the Eaft, there are none beyond the river Oby ; Ibid. p. 35° 



