The White Goat's Home. 



HE white goat lives above 

 I timber line, among the rocks, 

 along the narrow^ ledges, and 

 in the fissures of towering 

 ^^ precipices, by snow fields and 

 glaciers. Really it is not a goat at all, 

 but an antelope, — the analogue and not 

 distant relative of the European chamois. 

 It has horns and a beard ; and for no bet- 

 ter reason than this, the western Ameri- 



