8 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 
others. Each goat in turn, daringly, slowly, 
and successfully followed his precipitous course. 
John Burroughs says that a fox is a pretty 
bit of natural history on legs. The mountain 
goat is just the reverse. I have never ‘seen a 
big animal which, both in outline and action, 
is so much the embodiment of stiffness and 
clumsiness, just block-headed, lumbering wood 
sections. The fox is alert, keen, quick, agile, 
slender, graceful, and deft, and looks all these 
parts. 
The goat is a trifle smaller than the moun- 
tain sheep. The weight of a full-grown male 
is about two hundred and fifty pounds. He 
has a heavy body, high shoulders, and retiring 
hind quarters; he somewhat resembles a small 
buffalo. His odd head is attached to a short 
neck and is carried below the line of the shoul- 
ders. He has a long face and an almost gro- 
tesque beard often many inches long. The 
horns are nearly black, smooth, and slender. 
They grow from the top of the head, curve 
slightly outward and backward for eight or 
ten inches, and end in a sharp point. The 
horns of both sexes are similarly developed and 
are used by both with equal skill. The goat’s 
hair, tinged with yellow but almost white, is 
of shaggy length. 
In running he is not speedy. His actions 
