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The females are stated, by some American writers, to have horns like the males, although 
smaller; but in gravid, and, therefore, at least nearly full-grown individuals, which I have 
examined, there was merely a short, obtuse process, of the frontal bone, scarcely to be felt 
through the fur, and not covered with horn. 
The young, at birth, are covered on the upper parts with short hair, of a clove-brown 
colour, more or less hoary. The situation of the mane is marked by a dark line, The tail is 
yellowish-brown, and the buttocks are pure white. The dark mark on the nose, the one 
behind the angle of the jaw, and the bands across the throat, exist as in the adult. The legs 
are of a pure wood-brown colour. 
[79.] 1. Capra Americana. Rocky-Mountain Goat. 
Genus. Capra. Liny. 
Antilope Americana et Rupicapra Americana. BLAINVILLE, Bull, Soc. Phil. An. 1816, p. 80. 
Ovis montana. Orn, Journ. Phil. Acad., vol. i. pt.i. p. 8. An. 1817. 
‘* Mazama sericea. RaFINESQUE-SMALTZ, Am. Month. Mag. An. 1817, p. 44.” 
Rocky-Mountain sheep. JamEson, Wernerian Trans., vol. iii. p.306. An. 1821 (read An. 1819.) 
Antilope lanigera. Situ, Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 38.t. 4. An. 1822. 
PLATE xxII. 
The Rocky Mountain Goat has been supposed to be an inhabitant of California, 
where it is said to have been discovered by Fathers Piccolo and De Salvatierra, 
as will be noticed in the article on the Rocky Mountain sheep. Vancouver 
brought home a mutilated skin which he obtained on the North-west coast of 
America; and Lieutenant-General Davies presented a specimen to the Linnean 
Society, of which an account was published by M. de Blainville, in 1816. Mr. 
Ord, in 1817, described a skin brought home by Lewis and Clark under a new 
specific name, and a detailed description by Major C. H. Smith, drawn up in 
the same year from General Davies’ specimen, was published in the Linnean 
Transactions for 1821, under a third name*. The animal has been known to the 
members of the North-west and Hudson’s Bay Companies from the first establish- 
ment of their trading posts on the banks of the Columbia River, and in New 
Caledonia, and they have sent several specimens to Europe, One of these being 
* Grifith’s An. Kingd., vol. iv, p. 286. 
