MAMMALOGY 



that we ought to pause ere we pronounce any distinct opinion on it. 

 It represents a female in the outline of the figure, and countenance 



OnniANOY, AAIEYTIKflN A. 

 A passage that may be rendered thus :— - 



"The Sargi have a lively love for the goats: they are the object of 

 their desire. Though they live in the waves they find in the herds of the 

 mountains a charm most difficult to express. What can be more marvel- 

 lous than this association of animals issuing the one from the sea, the other 

 from the steep and rugged mountains ! During the ardent heats of the dog 

 days (when Sirius rises, in the heavens at the set of sun) the shepherds con- 

 duct their goats near the sea, (to bathe in the waters purified by exposure 

 to the rays of Phoebus). The Sargi when they hear their bleating ; and 

 the stronger voice of the goatherds, though little active at other times, dart 

 in haste to the bank, impelled to the very margin by the impulse of plea- 

 sure ; caressing with their tails the horns of the goats (the quadruped fair 

 ones) gliding upon their eager tongues and gambolling in immense num- 

 bers round them. The shepherds when they see this for the first time are 

 struck with astonishment 



Or as imitated with some abatement of literal accuracy, in the flowing 

 numbers of the poet. 



The Sargo scorns the natural embrace, 

 Admires the Goat and courts the bearded race, 

 The scented females of the mountains craves ; 

 Himself a native of th' inconstant waves. 



* 7.a.fyoi. The Sargos or Sargus: the Sargo of the modern Italians, believed to 

 be the Spams auratus or lunulated Gilt head, and not Perca labrax (tke Basse) as 

 considered by Jones. Vide Donovxn's British Fishes. 



