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broader and shorter in the body, dark brown on the su- 

 perior parts, and white on the inferior ; the head is 

 gray, excepting a space round the mouth, which is 

 black ; the breast, and a line along the back, are dark, and 

 there is a white streak at the back of the shanks ; the under 

 jaw and gullet are generally whitish-gray, and the anterior 

 part of the legs is dark ; the horns are about twenty-eight 

 inches long, dark brown, and very solid. The hair of this 

 species is rather hard, more ashy in winter, and at the root 

 interspersed with much grayish under- wool. The females 

 are smaller, with diminished horns, as in the former. 



This species of Ibex is equal, if not superior, in strength 

 and agility to the Alpine, making immense bounds with 

 the utmost confidence. Monardes relates that he saw an 

 Ibex leap from the top of a tower, and falling on its horns, 

 immediately spring up and move on without having received 

 the slightest injury. It resides in the Caucasian Mountains 

 about the sources of the Terek and Cuban, and is probably 

 found in the high mountains of eastern Persia. 



The Mgagrus. (C. JEgagrus.) This species is dis- 

 tinguished from the former by the horns forming an 

 acute angle to the front, with the ribs less broad, assuming 

 an undulating edge, and the posterior part rounded. In 

 size and proportion it is nearly the same as the Ibex ; the 

 fur is grayish-brown above, with a dark line on the back, 

 and a black tail ; the head black about the nose, rufous at 

 the sides ; beard and throat brown ; the horns are near three 

 feet long, but in the females they are small, or altogether 

 wanting : their fur is paler and more uniform in colour. 

 Kasmpfer noticed the Bezoar bearing Goat by the name of 

 Paseng, which Buffon, by mistake, transferred to an Oryx ; 

 and it is very probable that the Antelopes, as well as other 

 ruminants, occasionally produce these concretions. That 

 the oriental Bezoar was extracted chiefly from the viscera 

 of the present species at a very early period, appears indi- 



