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THE STEINBOCK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Horns bending backward, and almoft clofe at the bale. 

 Eight CUTTING TEETH in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 

 The male commonly bearded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Dark-brown Goat, with large knotted horns reclining backwards. 



The Ibex. 



Penn. Hijl. ^{adr. p. 49. 



THE Ibex, or Steinbock, which feme naturalills have confidered as the 

 original or ftock, from whence the feveral varieties of the common or 

 domeftic Goats have proceeded, is a native of feveral parts of Europe and 

 Afia, but is conftantly found in rocky and mountainous regions. It abounds 

 in the ifland of Crete, and is alfo found in Corfica. 



In fize it is fuperior to the common goat. Its general colour is a dark 

 cineieous brown, flightly tinged in fome individuals with ferruginous: the under 

 paics of the body aie of a dull yellowifh white. On the legs are often ken 

 mark, or patches of black : along the b.ick runs a co 'inued ftripe of black. 

 The horns are of enormous fize, and are maiked on the upper fide by large 



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