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hair rather long, loose, black, in others slaty-gray ; the 

 ears longer than the head, white, speckled with black; the 

 lips, chin, a spot on the forehead, and one on the breast, 

 white. 



The Egyptian breeds. One with long hair ; horns de- 

 pressed, sub-spiral ; ears small, pendent ; colour often brown ; 

 a second, with worns very spiral ; ears longer than the 

 head ; close smooth hair generally brown, and a third 

 breed with the ears very long and broad, one sometimes cut 

 off, to facilitate the animal in feeding, horns small or none, 

 hair rather long, generally rufous-brown. 



The breed of Upper Egypt, without horns ; chaffron sin- 

 gularly elevated ; the nose contracted, so as to shew the 

 chin and incisors bare ; high on the legs, with coarse hair 

 of a rufous-brown colour. The females with the udder 

 hanging very low. 



The Jemlah Goat. (C. Jemlanica.) This unquestionable 

 species is only known from the skull and skin formerly in 

 the British Museum. The size of the animal appears 

 nearly equal to the Ibex ; the facial line is straight, though 

 the prominences of the horns give the forehead a concave 

 appearance ; the eyes are rather small ; the ears short, 

 narrow, and rounded at the tips ; the horns stand obliquely 

 on the frontals, rather high above the orbits, nearly in con- 

 tact at base, extremely depressed, almost flat, four inches 

 and a quarter in breadth at the root, nine inches long, inclin- 

 ing outwards, then suddenly tapering into a point which 

 turns inwards, so as to nearly meet over the neck ; their co- 

 lour is pale ashy-buff, the anterior edge marked with seven 

 small protuberances, round, distinct, almost detached; 

 shaped like drops, being gradually obliterated as they ascend, 

 and each marking the commencement of a wrinkle, which 

 passes round the external flattened surfaces, in the form of 

 grooves, resembling the joints of a lobster, and leaving 

 about four inches smooth, where they contract into a point ; 



