G'O. AT. 
tafiecl. The chafe is a laborious employ : they muft 
be got at by furprize, and are fhot with rifE’d- 
barrel’d guns : in their ftomach is often a hairy ball 
covered with a hard cruft of an oblong; form: are 
laid to be long lived: bring two, feldom three young 
at a \irne. 
n Siberia?** M'ufimdtt, Plimi, lib. viii. c. 49. qtidd. 42. & la chevre du Levant, 
Ophion, Lib. xxviii, c. 9. xxx. 46. 
c. 15. .Le Moufflon, de Eiijfon, xi. 3152. 
Tragelaphus, Belon obf. 54. Ran tab. xxix. 
'Jyn. quad. 82. Klein quad* 20. Rnpicapra eornubus arictinis. 
Mufinon feu Mufimon, Gefner Argali, Nov. com. Petr op. iv. 49. 
quad. 823. ‘ 388. tab. 8. 
Capra Ammon, Lin.jyJJ * 97. Fifhtall, Lerwec, Sbavds trav. 
Le Chamois dre Siberie, Briffon 243.. Br. Muf. 
G. with large horns bending back, clofe at their 
bafe, diftant at their. points, with circular rugae. 
Thefe animals vary in fize and color: the fkin of 
one the Britijh Mufeum did me the* favor of ac¬ 
cepting was covered with pale ferruginous hair: on 
the fides fhort. on the top of the neck longer, and 
a little eredl: along the lower fide of the neck, and 
on the fhoulders, the hair was 14 inches long : be¬ 
neath the hair was a fhort wool : on the knees a 
bare fpot, as if by kneeling to lie down : tail very 
fhort: horns 25 inches long, xi in girth in the 
thickeft place, one foot feven inches diftant from 
point to point. I think this fkin came from one of 
the ifles of the Eaft Indies . 
Thofe of Corftca are kfs : their color deep brown 
mixed with ruft color, and a certain hoarinefs: tl^ 
hind legs, belly and rump, white : the horns of the 
females are much lefs than thofe, of the males. y 
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