SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Jsie\a,Chaldaic. Jaal, Arabic. Akko of Deuteronomy ? 

 Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. The Mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, 

 Mount Sinai, and probably Persia. 



870. 3. C. Caucasica (Caucasian Ibex.) Adult male 

 equal in stature to the Alpine ; horns triangular, the an- 

 terior edge obtuse, irregularly marked with transverse 

 knots, and uniform wrinkles, but fewer and more distant 

 than in the former, the horns twenty-eight inches, dark- 

 brown, and less curved ; general colour dark brown 

 above, white beneath the breast, and line on the back 

 dark. Female, horns nearly erect, slender, short, and 

 wrinkled. 



C. Caucasica, Guldenstadt. Gmel. 



Icon. Guldenstcedt, Act. Petrop. 1779. 



Habitat. The summits of the Caucasian Mountains. 



871, 4. C. jEgagrus {the Mgagrus.) Adult male nearly 

 equal to the Alpine Ibex, in proportion longer, but lower; 

 horns forming an acute angle to the front, rounded at the 

 back, transversely ribbed, forming an undulating anterior 

 edge, three feet long; head black in front; beard brown ; 

 general colour brown and gray, varying with the seasons , 

 the female, with short or no horns. 



Capriccrva Paseng, D. Garcia, ab Horto. Monardes 

 Paseng, Kccmpfer. C. iEgagrus, Pallas and Auclor. Pa- 

 . seng, G. and F. Cuvier. 



Icon. Kamjifer. Pallas. 



Habitat. Mountains of Persia, Caucasus, the Chora- 

 zan,Candia? The Alps? 



Var ? C. Hircus. Domestication of the yEi;ai;riis, is 

 supposed to have produced the greater number of breeds, 

 spread over every part of the globe ; we refer for the most 

 remarkable to the text. 



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