WILD GOAT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Horns rough, compressed, and bent backwards. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 
Chin, in the male, bearded. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Capra Ibex. C. cornibus supra nodosis in dorsum reclinatis, gukt 
barbata. Linn, Syst, Nat. Gmel. 1 . p.ig6. 
Horns knobbed on their upper surfaces, and re- 
clined backwards j throat bearded. 
Capra cornibus lunatis rotundatis, supra rotundatis 
in dorsum reclinatis. Erxl. Mamm. p. 261. 
n. 2. 
Ibex alpium sibiricarum. Pallas. Spic. Zool. xi. 
p. 31. pi. 3. et 5. fig. 4. 
Steinbock. Gesn. 
Wild Goat. Sm. Buff. v. 6. p. 363. pi. 190, 191. Penn. Hist. 
Quadr. v. 1. p.55. Beta. Quadr. p. ^0. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 2. pi. 198. 
All the earth is replenished with inhabitants, and 
each hath its particular situation allotted it. All, 
again, differ in their nature and manner of life, yet 
each is best calculated for the place consigned it by 
Providence. The wild and rugged Alps, whose 
