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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



actually represented with short horns, so that the con- 

 jecture is, even in this instance, not without corroboration. 



The drawings of which M. De Blainviile makes mention, 

 as representing goats by the names of Cossus and Imberbe, 

 of which we believe the originals to be in the Museum of the 

 Honourable East India Company, seem to be domesticated 

 varieties of this species. 



The Cossus Goat (Chevre Cossus of Blainviile) is entirely 

 white, covered with long hair, not curled ; ears horizontal ; 

 the horns bent back and outwards at the points ; depressed 

 against the posterior part of the head ; the forehead pro- 

 minent ; no true beard on the chin ; the hair of the face 

 turned to right and left, very long, and dividing the middle 

 line of the chaffron ; the tail short, curled up. 



The Beardless Goat (Chevre Imberbe of the same author) 

 greatly resembles the Caucasian Ibex in the general forms. 

 The body is bulky and lengthened ; the neck short and 

 wide ; the legs rather long and stout ; but the head re- 

 sembles that of a ram ; the chaffron is arched ; the fore- 

 head prominent ; the ears horizontal and middle sized : the 

 horns much compressed, transversely wrinkled, nearly in 

 contact at the base, then widening outwards and backwards, 

 and slightly twisted. Those of the female smaller and less 

 compressed; the tail turned up ; the hair in general short 

 and close, longer, and forming a kind of mane of a black 

 colour on the neck and part of the back : no beard on the 

 chin, but a pendulous skin in the form of a dewlap ; the 

 general colour, variegated black and white, irregularly 

 scattered. 



The small species C. Depressa, described by Buffon, may 

 also derive from the Jemlah ; the horns being greatly de- 

 pressed, recumbent on the back of the head, and the hair 

 long. It is doubtful whether Africa be its native country ; 

 for the breed propagated chiefly in South America, may 



