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EUEOPEAN IBEX. 
Capra Ibex — Linn^us. 
PLATE VII. 
Ibex of the Ancients Capra ibex, lAnnceus. Ham. Smith 
in Griffith's Cuvier ^Bouquetin ties P}ToneeB,Frerf. Ciiv. 
Hist. Nat. lies Mammif.— Young Male. 
The European Ibex seems at the present time to 
be one of those animals wliich, though a native of a 
country where natural history is almost universally 
studied, has nearly escaped the detailed notice of 
zoologists, who have been more attentive to the 
productions of other countries, until the eagerness and 
perseverance of the Chamois and Ibex hunters have 
nearly extirpated the animal, and now rendered it a 
species earnestly sought after by collectors. 
The Ibex is now known to inhabit sparingly, the 
Pyrenees, the Alps of Switzerland and the Tyrol, 
and some of the Spanish mountains. It loves to fre- 
quent the most exalted ranges, near the limits of per- 
petual snow, and seems in its common localities to 
ascend even higher than the chamois, which in other 
