SYNOPSIS OF THE 



872. 5. C. Jemlahica (the Jemlah Goat.) The male 

 nearly equal in size to the Ibex ; horns placed obliquely on 

 the frontals, high above the orbits, nearly in contact, de- 

 pressed, nearly flat, nine inches long, inclined outwards, 

 then suddenly tapering, and turned inwards ; anterior edge 

 marked with seven small protuberances, from whence pass 

 as many wrinkles, transversely to the rear ; the colour 

 ashy buff; facial line nearly straight; ears small; no 

 beard, but the sides of the head and whole body covered 

 with very abundant long hair of a dirty buff colour ; dark 

 streak down the face and along the spine. 



C. Jemlahica, Nobis MS. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. The Jemlah chain of the Hymalaya Mountains, 

 east of the Burrampootra. 



Var. The Cossus and beardless goats of Blainville ; 

 perhaps the Capricorn of Buffon, and C. Depressa. See 

 the text. 



Genus III. — Ovis. 



Incisors ^ ; canines %\l ; molars f f =32. Horns common 

 to both sexes, sometimes wanting in the females ; they are 

 voluminous, more or less angular, transversely wrinkled, 

 pale coloured, turned laterally in spiral directions, first 

 towards the rear, vaginating upon a porous bony axis ; 

 the forehead and chaffron arched ; they have no lachrymary 

 sinus, no muzzle, nor inguinal pores ; no beard properly so 

 called. The females have two mammae ; the tail rather 

 short; ears small; legs slender; hair of two kinds, one 

 harder and close, the other woolly. In a domestic state 

 the wool predominates, the horns vary or disappear, the 

 ears and tail lengthen, and several other characters undergo 

 modifications. The genus is gregarious in the mountains 

 of the four quarters of the globe. 



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