377 



LONG-HORNED WHIDAW GOAT. 

 Bouc de Juda. Bitff, Svppl. 3. p» 96. ph 13. 



In this variety, which Buffon seems to consider 

 as the same with the preceding, the horns are ra- 

 ther depressed than upright, much longer^ and 

 bending somewhat outwards and upwards in an 

 elegant manner at the tips : the hair is long and 

 silky, and the whole animal bears some resem- 

 blance to a small Angora Goat. BufFon describes 

 it as considerably larger than the former, mea- 

 suring two feet nine inches in length ; while the 

 other was only twenty-four inches long. This 

 variety is represented in the present work, and 

 seems to be the kind mentioned by M. Sonnini, 

 in his Travels, as comnwn in some parts of Egypt, 

 and which he says has long, thick, soft, and silky 

 hair, and slender handsomely-turned horns. 



CAPRICORN GOAT. 



Capra Capricornus. C. cornibus brevibus apice antrorsum versis^ 

 ad latera annulatis. Lin, Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 195. 



Goat with short horns turning forwards at the tips^ and annu- 

 lated on the sides. 



Le Capricorne. Buf. 12. p. 14.6, pL J ^. 



This variety, which is described by BuiFon, 

 from a skeleton with the horns, preserved in the 

 royal cabinet at Paris, is supposed to be a native 

 of Africa. In the form and proportion of rhe 

 bones, he tells us it has a perfect resemblance to 



