THE MUSMON OF CORSICA. 
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menagerie, taken when young in Corsica. They 
reached the ordinary size of sheep, and bred with the 
domestic races. They became completely domesti- 
cated, losing their great timidity; and the males 
would even attack their keeper. They were ex- 
tremely hardy, and required little care, and their 
senses of hearing and sight, particularly the former, 
were very acute. 
By the Prince of Musignano, the Musmon is 
placed in the genus or subgenus Capra, on account 
of the absence of the interdigital glandular hole : he 
has thus described it : “ The head is long, with the 
muzzle compressed, the nose is somewhat raised. 
There is a trace of a lachrymal sinus : the forehead 
is swollen ; the ears moderately large, erect, sharp. 
The horns of the males are large and long, triangular, 
bending with an arch which constitutes more than 
half a circle. Their bases are so extended that they 
Occupy almost all the forehead, and are separated 
only by a small space. They are attenuated almost 
Uniformly from the base to the tip, which is obtuse ; 
and for the whole length they are marked with trans- 
verse wrinkles, and with raised rings. 
The chin is without a beard : the neck is of a mo- 
tlerate size, with the appearance of a dewlap be- 
ueath. The body is large and muscular ; the tail 
Very short, composed only of twelve vertebra) (where- 
as in the domestic sheep there are nineteen or twen- 
ty)) indexed, bare on the under side. The legs are 
pretty long, the hoofs short. 
