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THE IBEX. 
is supposed by naturalists to be 
^ original stock from which the common 
is descended. Though nearly resembling 
goat in shape, it is considerably larger ; 
^^out five feet from nose to tail, and 
der eight inches high at the shoul- 
tiv’f possesses great strength and ac- 
j . is generally of a dark brown colour, 
ermixed with gray; the belly and thighs 
ratb^ ^ delicate fawn colour. The head is 
fiy ^ small, and the chin furnished with a 
lar^*^ dusky beard. The horns are very 
ha^^ about thirty inches long, bending 
leno'+T^'^^ and sometimes extending the whole 
Colo ^ ^ brown 
cul marked with transverse semicir- 
protuberances or knots, 
animals are, more extensively spread 
