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figures of this numerous and elegant tribe I must 

 refer to the work of Schreber, where they are 

 collected from the works of Pallas and many other 

 describers. In the Leverian Museum, so unfor- 

 tunately doomed to dispersion, may be found 

 some of the most curious kinds. 



Of the Sheep and Goat tribe, or the two Lin- 

 neean genera of Ovis and Capra, it may be suf- 

 ficient to say, that the species which is supposed 

 to be the origin of the Common Sheep in all 

 its varieties, is the Argali, a large and handsome 

 animal, found in many of the mountainous re- 

 gions of the Eastern world. In this its natural 

 state it is rather covered with hair than wool, 

 and is of a pale tawny-brown colour, with very 

 large horns. 



Tlie Common Goat, in all its varieties, is sup- 

 posed to have descended from the animal called 

 the Ihei\ a large and very active quadruped, found 

 in situations not dissimilar to those in which 

 the Argali or Wild Sheep is seen. The Ibex is 

 of a brown colour, with excessively large and 

 long horns, bending or curving backwards, and 

 marked above by rows of transverse knobs or 

 half circles. 



