6 GOA T. 
of hounds : are from one to two feet long: fome- 
times they are fo troublefome, that the owners cut 
off one to enable the animal to feed with more eafe. 
The horns are black and fhort. 
^ African. Capra depreffa. Le bone d’Afrique. de Euffon, 
C. cornibus ereftis apice re- xiii. 154. tab. xviii. xix. 
curvis'. Lin.fyfi. 95. 
A dwarf variety, found in Africa . The male co¬ 
vered with rough hair, and beneath the chin hang 
two long hairy wattles : the horns fhort, very thick, 
and triangular, and lie fo clofe to the fcull as almoff 
to penetrate it: the horns of the female are much 
lefs, neither has it wattles: its hair is fmooth. 
* Whidaw. Capra reverfa ; bus, gula barbata. Lin.Jyfl.q^. 
C. cornibus depreifis incurvis Le bouc de Juda. de Euffon, xii. 
minimis cranio incumbenti- 154. tab. xx. xxi. 
From Juda or IVhidaw , in Africa. A fmall kind : 
the horns fhort, fmooth, and turn a little forwards. 
Linnaus fays, that this and the preceding came from 
America \ but certainly before its difeovery by the 
Spaniards , the goat and every other domeftic ani¬ 
mal was unknown there, 
Capricorn. Le Capricorne. de Euffon, xii. 146. tab.xv. 
A variety with fhort horns, the ends turning for¬ 
ward : their Tides annulated: the rings more pro¬ 
minent before than behind. 
10. Ruficafra, 
