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It to perceive an aggressor at the distance of half a 
league. Its voice, when undisturbed, is a kind of 
low bleating, but, when alarmed, it is changed into 
3- shrill blast or whistle, which is known to the herd, 
and at once sets them upon the alert. 
As at the commencement of these volumes we 
proposed following the arrangement of the llumi- 
nantia by Major Smith, we shall now proceed to his 
next forms, though, by later writers of authority and 
Correct investigation, the species to be noticed has 
teen placed with the Goats. The Aplocerine group 
ef the above-mentioned author is represented by 
