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ner it lay down and suffered itself to be handled very 

 quietly. 



Of the species we have seen a great number of indivi- 

 duals, and from different countries. One larger than the 

 European, with the horns ten inches long, measured upon 

 the curve, came from the eastern shores of the Black Sea, 

 and the Caucasian Mountains ; it had short hair, was more 

 uniformly brown, with the face, throat, and buttock ferru- 

 ginous, and the black streak across the eyes very broad ; the 

 legs were pale buff. 



The Yzard or Pyreneean variety, may be the smaller, or 

 Glacier breed of Mr. Haller. It is smaller, the hair short, 

 the fur a mixture of dun and gray on the back; rather a 

 lively buff on the cheeks and throat ; the usual dark streak 

 beneath the eye, with a black arch above them, and a bright 

 ferruginous one immediately beneath that and above the 

 eye; the forehead, lips, and chaffron, whitish ; a dark line 

 from the corner of the ears, passing round the buff of the 

 throat, and a faint dark line on the flanks, as in the 

 Dorcas; buff buttocks, having another black line next the 

 gray of the croup ; the legs pale buff. 



The Persian variety is of the same size as the Yzard, 

 with one kind of close short hair of a rufous-dun colour, 

 paler on the face and extremities, the dark streak begins 

 beneath the eye, and is less distinct ; the horns are shorter 

 and bend with a greater curve backwards ; the buttocks 

 are white, and the legs more slender than the above. 



The Aplocerine Group. 



We have seen in the former divisions of the genus, a 

 gradual evanescence of characters, from the deer-like 

 forms and other attributes of the Antilopine type, till we 

 have reached those where the predominance seemed to bear 

 towards Capra. In the present, however, equally remote 

 with the two last from the primitive characters, there 



