GENUS CAPRA . — L inn. 
DENTAL FORMULA. 
Incisive jj ; Canine jqj ; Molar ™ = 82. 
Horns common to both sexes, or rarely wanting in the female ; in 
domesticated races occasionally absent in both : they are directed 
upwards and curved backwards, and are more or less angular. No 
muzzle, no lachrymal sinus, nor unguinal pores ; eyes, light coloured, 
pupil elongated ; tail, short, flat, and naked at base ; throat, bearded. 
Mostly reside in the primitive and highest mountains of the ancient 
continent and America. 
Habit, herbivorous ; climbing rocks and precipices ; producing two or 
three young at a time ; gregarious. 
There are six well determined species — one inhabiting the Alps, one in 
Abyssinia and Upper Egypt, one in the Caucasian mountains, one in the 
mountains of Persia, one in the Himalaya, and one in the Rocky Mountains 
of North America. 
The generic name Capra is derived from the Latin capra, a goat. 
CAPRA AMERICANA.— Blainville. 
Rocky Mountain Goat. 
PLATE C XX VIII. — Male and Female. 
C. Magnitudine ovem arietem adasquans, corpore robusto, cornibus 
parvis acutis lente recurvis, pilis albis, cornibus ungulisque nigris. 
CHARACTERS. 
Size of the domestic sheep ; form of body, robust ; horns, small and pointed, 
slightly curved backwards. Colour of hair, totally white. 
SYNONYMES. 
Antilope Americana et Rupicapra Americana. Blainville, Bulletin Socy. Phil., 
Ann. 1816, p. 80. 
Ovis Montana. Ord, Jour. Acad. N. Sci. Phil., vol. i., part i., p. 8. Ann. 1817. 
