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THE NEPAUL GOAT, &C. 
which is also sometimes seen in some of the breeds 
of sheep. In the female, the udder is always very 
pendent, sometimes almost touching the ground. 
One of the prettiest breed of Goats is a dwarf va- 
riety, originally from Guinea, but now, according to 
Major Smith and Fred. Cuvier, multiplied in South 
America. Two of these animals are figured in the 
work of the latter naturalist, a male and female, prick- 
eared, but bearing very much in other respects a re- 
semblance to the young or females of the common 
domestic breed. The horns are short, and bend 
backwards. The colour varies to the usual tints of 
the domestic races, and the forehead and nasal bones 
are rather concave. The height of the male was only 
twenty-two inches, that of the female about eighteen. 
