GEXUS CAPRA. 
Ill 
or inguinal pores ; tall short and nalied at the base, 
ohin bearded.”* 
Naturalists for a long time were of opinion that 
the original stock of our domestic goats was to be 
found in the Caucasian Ibex. The discovery, how- 
over, of another animal inhabiting the same country 
^Rd the Asiatic border, more similar in form, has 
rendered it more probable that to that animal we 
Rre indebted for our present races, in some cases 
iRixed with both the Caucasian and Abyssinian Ibex. 
The animal alluded to is 
•Major Smith 
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