ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 
129 
Manama Sericea. Raffinesque Smaltz, Am. Monthly Mag. 1817, p. 44. 
Rocky Mountain Sheep. Jameson, Wernerian Trans., vol. iii. p. 306. Ann. 1821. 
Capra Montana. Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 253. 
“ “ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 326. 
Antelope Lanigera. Smith, Linnsean Trans., vol. xiii. p. 38, t. 4. 
Capra Americana. Rich., F. B. A., p. 268, plate 22. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Form of the body and neck, robust, like that of the common Goat ; nose, 
nearly straight ; ears, pointed, lined with long hair ; the horns incline 
slightly backwards, tapering gradually and not suddenly, uncinated like 
those of the chamois, transversely wrinkled with slight rings for nearly 
half their length from the base, and sharp pointed ; towards the tip they 
are smooth and polished. Tail short, and though clothed with long hair, 
almost concealed by the hairs which cover the rump ; legs, thick and short ; 
secondary hoofs, flat, grooved on the soles, and resembling those of the 
common Goat. 
The coat is composed of two kinds of hair, the outer and longer 
considerably straighter than the wool of the sheep, but softer than that of the 
common Goat ; this long hair is abundant on the shoulders, back, neck, 
and thighs ; on the chin there is a thick tuft forming a beard like that of 
the latter animal ; under the long hairs of the body there is a close coat 
of fine white silky wool, quite equal to that of the Cashmere Goat in 
fineness. 
COLOUR. 
Horns, and hoofs, black ; the whole body, white. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Feet. Inches. 
Length of head and body, ----- 3 4 
“ tail, 1 
“ head, 11 
“ horns, ------- 6 
Diameter of horns at base, ----- 1 
HABITS. 
Standing “ at gaze,” on a table-rock projecting high above the valley 
beyond, and with a lofty ridge of stony and precipitous mountains in the 
background, we have placed one of our figures of the Rocky Mountain 
VOL. III. — 17 
