The Hifiory ANIMALS. gjg 
The ground colour is a deep brown, but it is variegated in an elegant manner with 
black, and a very deep grey ; it is fometimes quite plain, and fometimes has other of 
thefe marks in a beautiful wildnefs. 
We have this in our parks. Authors call it Capreolus and Caprea, but it has no 
refemblance of the goat-kind. 
CAPRA. 
T H E horns of the Capra are hollow, and are turned upwards, and are eredi; 
and fcabrous: the fore-teeth are eight, and the exterior ones are (hotter 
than the others, and acute: there are no canine teeth. 
Capra cornuhus carinatis arcuatis. 
The Capra y with carinated y arcuated horns* 
The common goat is nearly of the fize of the fheep, but the wool of the latter 
makes it appear much the larger: the head is oblong, confiderably broad at the top, 
and thence gradually taper to the extremity of the nofe, where it is (mail and (harp : 
the eyes are large and bright; the nodrils wide, and the mouth large: the neck is 
fhort and thick; the body bulky, and the legs fhort, but robud* and very (tiff ; the 
hoof is divided and brown. 
The fur of the goat is deep, and the hairs rigid; they are waved, but not curled as 
in the fheep, fo that the longed of them have not at all the appearance of wool: the 
beard is long, and hangs down from the chin : the horns are moderately long, draight, 
or but little contorted, and of a deep brown: the general colour of the goat, in it’s 
wild date, is a pale dun, but, as kept tame, the varieties in this refpedt are endlefs. 
It is a native of mod parts of Europe. It is fond of mountainous and rocky 
places, and runs up precipices, and climbs rocks in a furprifing manner, though it’s 
feet feem by no means formed for it. All the writers on beads have defcribed it. They 
call it Hircus and Caper vulgaris. 
Capra pedihus digito humano angufiiorihus . 3C\jZ (J5UUltU- 
The Capra y with feet fmaller than a man s finger . j5£0t* 
This elegant little creature is univerfally referred to the deer-kind, but improperly ; 
it is truly and in all refpedts a goat: it is not fo tall as a common cat, apd extreamly 
fine limbed : the head is fmall and oblong j the eyes are large, in proportion, and are 
bright and piercing; the ears are patulous: the horns are very fhort; they dand al- 
mod eredt, and are furrowed on the furface, and of a deep brown : the body is mo¬ 
derately bulky; the legs are very dender, the hoofs are divided, as in the common 
goat, and of a pale brown : the whole animal is covered with a fine coat, of a bright 
fhining yellowifh-brown, and very glody. 
This is a native of Guinea, and fome other warm countries. Authors call it Cer~ 
vus pufillus Guineenfis. 
Capra cornuhus ereElis uncinatis. ©ttpICIIpt^h, 
The Capra y with ereEi y uncmated horns . 0? CtjEIBOlfe* 
This is a very beautiful animal; it’s horns refer it evidently to the goat-kind, other- 
wife it’s whole form has more of the appearance of the deer: the head is long and 
narrow, rounded at the top, and obtufe, but very fmall at the extremity of the nofe : 
the eyes are large, bright, and tolerably prominent; the ears are patulous; the horns 
are of a lingular make ; they dand nearly eredf, and are (even inches long; both the 
male 
