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MAMMALIA, 
This graceful Ruminant inhabits the Pyrenees and Alps, and 
also some of the highest points in Greece. But from constant 
persecution it has lately become so rare that few persons can boast 
of haying been successful in its pursuit. 
The Chamois lives in small herds, in the midst of steep rocks on 
the highest mountain summits. With marvellous agility it leaps 
over ravines, scales with nimble and sure feet the steepest accli- 
vities, bounds along the narrowest paths on the edge of the 
most perilous abysses, and jumping from rock to rock, will take 
its stand on the sharpest point, where there appears hardly room 
for its feet to rest ; and all this is accomplished with an accuracy of 
sight, a muscular energy, an elegance and precision of movement, 
and a self-possession which are without equal. From these facts, 
it can easily be understood that hunting this nimble and daring 
animal is an amusement full of danger. 
