SYRIAN GOAT. 
Though this very singular and most cu- 
rious species of the Goat is well known to 
naturalists, all the information respefting it, 
found in the works of our best writers, is ex- 
tremely trifling. Even Pennant, who gives us 
two figures, offers not the smallest particular 
description of either, and comprizes his general 
account of the Syrian Goat in the few follow- 
ing lines. 
" These animals," says he, " are plentiful 
in the East, and supply Aleppo with milk. 
Their ears are of a vast length, hanging down 
like those of Hounds, from one to two feet 
long. Sometimes they are so troublesome, 
that the owners cut off one, to enable the ani- 
mal to feed with more ease. The horns are 
black, and short." 
He adds, that " the same species is also 
found among the Kirghisian Tartars, and 
sometimes brought down to Astracan." 
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