SYRIAN GOAT. 
This is all the information afforded to us 
by Pennant on the subje6l : and we may ob- 
serve, that what he says, relative to the cutting 
off one ear, might quite as well have been 
omitted ; as it is palpably absurd, and an 
undoubted misrepresentation of the a6lual 
faa. 
Mr. Kerr, in his translation of Linn^us, 
mentions this circumstance wkh more plausi- 
bility: " the ears," says he, are of an enor- 
mous length, and sometimes need to be cut off, 
to allow the animal to graze." This, if at all 
necessary, would only be half effected bv 
cutting off a single ear, as related by Pennant. 
Buffon m.akes no mention of the matter ; 
which, it is probable, he did not at all believe. 
Indeed, like other natin-alists, he takes but 
little notice of the Syrian Goat. 
Tliis animal, however, is the Capra Mam- 
l)rica, of Llnnceus ; the Capra Syriaca, of 
Brisson ; the Capra Indica, and Capra Mam- 
biina, or rather Syriaca, of Gesner, Jolm- 
ston, and Ray; the Goat withTong Hanging 
Kais, of Prosper Alpinus and Aldrovandiis ; 
the 
