THE SPANISH IBEX. 



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habit never varies. In the more elevated cordilleras, 

 where, even in summer, there remain great expanses of 



3PANISH [BEX, OLD RAM— SIERRA NEVADA. (Front view.) 



snow and glacier-ice, the wild goats retire at dawn to the 

 heights, spending the day on some bare rock or among the 

 crevices of crags islanded in the snow-field, and always 



