COMMON GOAT. S69 



Academy of Petersburgh, and which may be con- 

 sidered as differing so shghtly from the preceding 

 as scarce to demand a specific character. It is 

 said to be found in the schistous chffs of Caucasus, 

 near the origin of the rivers Te7rk and Cuban, 

 The horns are much larger than those of the com- 

 mon goat, and are bowed backwards. The colour 

 of the animal is a ferruginous brown above, paler 

 or whitish beneath. It is of the size of a common 

 goat, but of a thicker or stouter form. Upon the 

 whole, I cannot but think that Mr. Pennant has 

 very properly included this in his description of 

 the Caucasan Ibex above detailed. 



COMMON GOAT. 



Capra Hircus. C. cornihus carinatis arcuatis, gula harhata, 



Lin. S]/st, Nat. p. 94. 

 Goat with bowed carinated horns, commonly turning outwards 



towards the ends. 

 Capra. Gesn. Quadr. p. 170. 301./. 30.2. 304. Aldr, bisuk, p. 



6ig.f.p. 635. Jonst. Quadr. p, 6^. t, i6.> 27, 

 Bouc & Chevre. Buff. 5. p. 59, pi. 8, 9. 

 Domestic Goat. Fennant Quadr. i, p. 60. 



The reader will observe, that on the supposition 

 of the Caucasan Ibex, or ^gagrus, being the ori- 

 ginal or stock from which the common goat has 

 been derived, its Linnasan specific character is, of 

 course, given in the same words. 



The Goat, in its domestic state, is found in al- 

 most every part of the Globe, bearing the ex- 

 tremes of heat and cold, and differing in size and 



