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ineredible. “‘ The caprachireus, in the vast diversity 
of regions to which it has been accommodated by 
naturalization, is found in Europe as high as Ward- 
huys in Norway, where they breed and run out the 
whole year, having in winter only the shelter of 
novels. In that season they feed on moss and the 
bark of fir trees and even on the logs cut for fuel.” In 
the same work from which we get this extract we 
are informed that the Scythian antelope, the suhah, 
the saiga of Buffon, an allied animal to the goat, ~ 
inbabits the dreary open deserts about the Caspian 
Sea, where salt springs abound. ‘They feed on the 
galt, and acrid and aromatic plants of the country, 
and grow in summer time very fat. In- the spring 
they divide in flocks, and return northward at the 
same time as the wandering ‘Partars change their 
quarters. | On the shores opposite Port Royal, two 
classes of goats may be seen: those of the salinasg, 
and those of the crags. ‘These of the salinas lead 
as hard a life as the Caspian saiga. They wander 
daily to the salt grounds, in several flocks, and 
subsist on acrid herbs. ‘Those of the Healthshire, 
crags and cliffs, are absolutely wild, confining them- 
selves to the crests of the hills, and enjoying a pre- 
carious existence among wild pintadoes, quails, and 
iguanas. Sometimes the sportsman who goes after 
them, starts the peafowl, become a maroon bird, in 
the same wilderness of thickets ; and there he hears 
that sweet singer, the musteline thrush, confined 
to these hills and the neighbouring savannas. No 
animal seems more prone to varieties than the goat 
