ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 133 
Clark, and Major Charles Hamilton Smith described a specimen in 
1821, in the Linnsean Transactions for that year. 
The resemblance of the animal to some of the antelopes, the chamois, the 
Goat, and the sheep, caused it to be placed by these authors under several 
genera. De Blainville first made it an antelope , then named it Rupi- 
capra— a subgenus of antelope to which the chamois belongs. Ord 
arranged it in the genus Ovis. Smith called it Jlntilope lanigera. 
Besides these, Raffinesque named it Mazama sericea. Dr. Harlan and 
Richardson were each correct, as we think, in placing it in the genus 
Capra (Goat). As in the Goat, the facial line in this species is nearly 
straight, while in the sheep and antelopes it is more or less arched. The 
sheep and the antelope are beardless, and the Goat is characterized by its 
beard, a conspicuous ornament in the present animal, which is moreover, 
in the form of its nose, the strength and proportion of the limbs, and the 
peculiarities of the hoofs, allied closer to the Goats than to any other 
neighbouring genus. 
