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Goat. 

 Hoofs higher and more compact. 

 False hoofs well developed. 

 Head smaller and finer. 

 Facial line straight. 

 Ears shorter and rounded. 

 Tail short, flat, nude below. 



Withers higher than croup. 



Fore legs stronger than hind. 



Croup sloped ofi^. 



Odorous. 



Nose moister, and nares short 1 

 and wide. J 



Homs of medial size, keeled,! 

 and turned upwards. J 



Eye darker and keener. 



Hair long and unequal. 



Back arched. 



Bears change of climate well. 



Is eminently curious, capricious, "1 

 and confident. J 



Barks trees with its homs, feed- 

 ing on the peel, and on aro- 

 matic herbs. 



In fighting rears itself on its 

 hind legs and lets the weight 

 of its body fall on the adver- 

 sary. 



Sheep. 

 Lower and less so. 

 Evanescent. 

 Larger and heavier. 

 Chafi^ron arched. 

 Longer and pointed. 

 Longer, less depressed, and half 



nude only. 

 Croup higher. 

 Fore and hind equal. 

 Not so. 

 Not so. 



Less moist, longer, and narrower. 



Horns very large, not keeled, and" 



turned to the sides. 

 Paler and duller. 

 Short and equal. 

 Back straight. 

 Bears it ill. 



Is incurious, staid, and timid. 



Does not bark trees, and is less 

 addicted to aromatics. 



In fighting runs a-tilt, adding 

 the force of impulse to that of 

 weight. 



" The Goat and Sheep have in common, hair and wool; no beard; 

 no suborbital sinuses ; evanescent muzzle ; no inguinal pores ; horns 

 in contact at the top of the head ; knees and sternum callous ; an- 

 gular and transversely wrinkled horns ; striated ears ; two teats 

 only in the females ; horns in both sexes ; and, lastly, incisors of 

 precisely the same form. 



" Of the various diagnostics, then, proposed by Col. Hamilton 

 Smith, it would seem that the following only can be perfectly relied 

 on to separate Ovis from Capra : slender limbs ; longer pointed ears ; 

 chafFron arched ; nares long and oblique ; very voluminous horns, 

 turned laterally with double flexures. I should add myself, the 

 strong and invariable distinction, — males not odorous, — as opposed 

 to the males odorous of the genus Capra. But, after all, there are 

 no physical distinctions at all equivalent to the moral ones so finely 

 and truly delineated by BuflFon, and which, notwithstanding what 

 Col. H. Smith urges in favour of the courage and activity of Sheep, 

 will, for ever, continue to be recognised as the only essential dia- 

 gnostics of the two genera." 



