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points of variation. According to Godron, 100 the mammae differ 

 greatly in shape in different breeds, being elongated in the 

 common goat, hemispherical in the Angora race, and bilobed 

 and divergent in the goats of Syria and Nubia. According to 

 this same author, the males of certain breeds have lost their 

 usual offensive odour. In one of the Indian breeds the males 

 and females have horns of widely-different shapes; 101 and in 

 some breeds the females are destitute of horns. 102 The presence 

 of interdigital pits or glands on all four feet has been thought 

 to characterise the genus Ovis, and their absence to be charac- 

 teristic of the genus Capra ; but Mr. Hodgson has found that 

 they exist in the front feet of the majority of Himalayan 

 goats. 103 Mr. Hodgson measured the intestines in two goats of 

 the Dugu race, and he found that the proportional length of the 

 great and small intestines differed considerably. In one of these 

 goats the caecum was thirteen inches, and in the other no less 

 than thirty-six inches in length ! 



ioo 4 p e l'Espece,' torn. i. p. 406. Mr. not due to descent from distinct species ; 



Clark also refers to differences in the for Mr. Clark states that this part varies 



shape of the mammae. Gordon states that much in form. 



in the Nubian race the scrotum is divided 101 Mr. Clark, ' Annals and Mag. of 



into two lobes ; and Mr. Clark gives a Nat. Hist.,' vol. ii. (2nd series), 1848, p. 



ludicrous proof of this fact, for he saw 361. 



in the Maritius a male goat of the 102 Desmarest, ' Encyclop. Method. 



Muscat breed purchased at a high price Mammalogie,' p. 480. 

 for a female in full milk. These 103 ' Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal,' 



differences in the scrotum are probably vol. xvi., 1847, pp. 1020, 1025. 



