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Deer in stature, while others are much smaller. It has no bear^ 

 on the chin, like the true Goats, but is remarkable for the quantity 

 of long hanging hair in front of the neck, and on the upper part of 

 the fore-limbs, the former attaining in fine males to about a foot in 

 length, and the latter to 9 inches ; there is also some lengthened 

 hair at the setting on of the head, and a dense nuchal mane, the 

 hairs of which are 3 inches long, continued over the withers till lost 

 about the middle of the back. General colour yellow-brown. Horns 

 moderately stout, turning outwards, backwards, and so inwards, with 

 the tips inclining towards each other. 



" ITie splendid male in the British Museum measures 5 feet from 

 nose to tail, and tail 9 inches, or with its terminal tuft of hair 13 

 inches ; height of the back 3| feet, but the living animal would not 

 have stood so high by severed inches ; from muzzle to base of horn 

 11 inches, and ears 5 inches. The finest pair of horns which I have 

 seen are in the same collection, and measure 25 inches over the cur- 

 vature, IO5 round at base, with an antero-posterior diameter of 2^ 

 inches inside ; they diverge to 23 inches apart, measuring outside, at 

 a distance of 6 inches from the tips, which latter return to 15 inches 

 asunder; their span from base to tip inside is 13 inches; at base 

 they are closely approximated, but not quite in contact. General 

 form subquadrangular for nearly a foot, then gradually more com- 

 pressed to the end, and having a very deep longitudinal furrow for 

 the greater portion of their length outside, above which the horn 

 bulges : there is a mark of annual growth at 1^ inch from the base, 

 another 1^ inch further, and a third after an interval of 3 inches; 

 but the rest are too indistinct to be made out with certainty among 

 the wrinkles of the horn. A large pair of female horns were 16 

 inches long ; 7^ round at base ; their widest portion apart, near the 

 tips, 19 inches ; and the tips 17^ inches : their surface is marked with 

 broad transverse indentations, which in the males ordinarily become 

 more or less effaced with age. The female of this species is a thu'd 

 smaller than the other sex ; and a lamb in the collection of this So- 

 ciety is extremely kid-like, with the spinal mane upon the neck and 

 shoulders very conspicuous, but no lengthened hair on the fore-neck 

 and limbs ; in the half-grown male, the latter especially is still not 

 much developed. 



"This species is well known as the Aoudad of the Moors, and the 

 Kebsh of the Egyptians ; it is also, according to Riippell, the Tedal 

 of the inhabitants of Nubia, which is doubtless the same as Teytal, 

 applied by Burckhardt to the wild Goat of that region, in addition to 

 the word Beden, which (in common with Riippell and others) he also 

 assigns to the latter. Mr. Wilkinson, however, confirms Burckhardt, 

 by informing us that the Goat referred to is called in Arabic Beddan, 

 or Taytal, the former appellation referring to the male only. This 

 author adds, that the present species ' is found in the eastern desert, 

 principally in the ranges of primitive mountains, which, commencing 

 about lat. 28° 40', extend thence into Ethiopia and Abyssinia.' 

 According to M. Riippell, ' it is found in all North Africa above 18°, 

 in small families, and always upon the rocky hills ;' frequenting the 



