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712. 7. Juda Goat. — Capra nana. 



The horns are very thick, are rounded on the upper furface, and have two fharp edges 

 below; they -are bent backwards, with a flight fpiral twill downwards, outwards, 

 and upwards. 



Other Buck of Juda. Sm. Buff. v. 390. pi. cxciii. 



Inhabits Juda in Africa. — This kind is likewife of a dwarfiih fize, and, though joined with the 

 preceding by Dr Gmelin, is here feparated on account of the different figure of the horns. 



7/13 8. Cipricorn. — 7. Capra Capricornus. 1. >;. 



The horns are fhort, annulated at the fides, and turned forwards at the ends. Sm. Buff, 

 vi. 363. D°. Fr. ed. xii. 146. t. 15. 



Capricorn Goat. Penn. liift. of quad. n. 14. £. 



Its place, hiftory, and even figure, are uncertain. — The Count de Buffon only informs us that its 

 ikeleton was fent, under the name of Capricorne, to the royal cabinet, and that it agrees with the 

 Common Goat in the form and proportions of its bones and teeth, but differs in the figure of the. 

 horns. 



7H 9- Cabonas Goat. — Capra mutica. 



Has no horns. Penn. hift. of quad. p. 57. 



Inhabits the country of the Cabonas, to the north of the Cape of Good Hope. — This variety re- 

 fembles the Common domeftic Goat in every thing but the want of horns. 



Goats * are found wild in many places, but principally on the mountains of Caucaffus and Taurus ; 

 likewife on the hills of Perfia, India, and Japan, alfo in Crete or Candia, and Africa, and the lower 

 Alpine mountains of Europe. They refemble Deer in agility, and even in manners and appearance, but 

 are much more fubjecT: to variety. The horns of the male, which are generally of a dark brown afh. 

 colour, are always larger, ftronger, and rougher than thofe of the females, which are either fmall and 

 flender, or wanting.. The neck and limbs are ftrongly made ; the head is thick, and the fkull very 

 hard; they have no lachrymal furrow below the eyes, nor any cellular cavity in the groins. The fur, 

 in the wild ftate, is ufually of a reddifh grey or afh colour -|-, with a.dufky lift along the ridge of the 

 back ; the fur is generally harfh and rough ; and the formerly efteemed Bezoar is frequently found < 

 in their ftomachs. The Domeftic fpecies, Sp. 2. is cultivated through all Europe, and in almoft every 

 part of the earth; it feeds on the twigs, leaves, and bark of various trees and fhrubs, and on various 

 kinds of moffes and lichens, and even eats hemlock, euphorbium, and other poifonous and medicinal 

 plants without harm. : It is fond of hilly places ; generally lives to ten or twelve years of age ; varies 

 in colour, being black, or white, or mottled ; and is feldomer deftitute of horns than the other do- - 

 meftic quadrupeds. In the ifland of Juan Fernandez there are Goats, now wild, defcended from. 

 tame ones left there by navigators ; but there were none in America, till carried thither from Eu- 

 rope or Africa. The Goat is treacherous, petulant, quarrelfome, lafcivious, very active, and an ex- 



S f 2- cellen£ ; : 



* This paragraph relates to all the fpecies or varitics which have gone before.-^— T. 

 f This refers to the Wild Goat, No. 706.— T. 



