152 WILD SHEEP. 
may require; for, to almost every, quad- 
ruped, there belongs either a conspicuous 
or a latent under coat of wool, as to birds 
an under coat of down. But it is hence 
that the Spaniards, in South America, 
when they saw wool upon the Llama, cried 
out ** Sheep;” and we have two recent in- 
stances In our own country, of this propen- 
sity to see something Sheepish wherever there 
is wool, such as are quite unworthy of mo- 
dern science, or which, at least, discover how 
few of the great principles of Zoology are 
yet established. No. 327, in the Museum 
of the Society, is called in its Catalogue by 
no other than a barbarous assemblage of 
names, as if to describe the offscouring of 
all the mongrels in creation—such as Pliny 
supposed to be the source of so many vari- 
ous species of animals—the endless mixture 
of many. Alas! the nature of the Goat of 
North America, or North American Wild 
Goat, called, by Dr. Richardson, Rocky 
Mountain-Goat,* is described, in this Cata- 
logue, as the Mountain-Sheep-A nteoope” aan 
* Fauna Boreali-Americana, p. 268, 
