RUMINANTIA-CAVICORNIA-APLOCERUS MONTANUS. 
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APLOCERUS, Ham. Smith. 
Aplocerus, Ham. Smith, Griffith’s Cuvier, V, 1827, 354. 
Haplocerus, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 462. 
Mazama, Rafinesque, Am. Month. Mag. I, 1817, 44. (In part only.) 
J. E. Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc'. Lond. 1850, 136. 
“ Horns small, conical, nearly erect, slightly inclined, and recurved at tip ; ringed at the base. Nose, ovine, hairy. Muffle, 
none. Tear bag, none. Fur short; under fur woolly ; outer very long, hairy, and dependent. False hoofs present.”—G ray. 
The white goat of the Rocky Mountains is, in all its essential features and affinities, a true 
antelope, having little in common with animals of the type of the domestic goat beyond what 
belongs to all ruminants of its family. The jet black and polished, slender, conical horns, are 
much like those of the chamois, which, in fact, connects the genus with the American 
antelope. The true characters of Capra I shall refer to in the next article. 
In the quotations at the head of the article, Mazama has precedence in point of date, but is 
utterly inadmissible as a genus of mammals. In the remarks on the genus Antilocapra, in the 
preceding article, the subject is discussed and explained more fully. 
APLOCERUS MONTANUS. 
Mountain Goat. 
Ovis montana, Ord, Guthrie’s Geography (2d Am. Ed.) II, 1815, 292,309.— Ib. J. A. N. Sc. I, i, 1S17, 8.— Ib. 
Journal de Physique, LXXXV, 1817, 333. 
Capra montana, Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 253. 
Godman, Am. N. H. II, 325. 
Sundevall, Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Handl. for 1844 .—Ib. Archiv Skand. Beit. II, 1850, 279. 
(From specimen in Leyden Museum.) 
Aplocerus montanus, Richardson, Zool. of Herald ; Fossil Mammals, II, 1852, 131; pi. xvi-xix. Osteology. 
(Rupicapra americana on the plate.) 
Antilope ( Rupicapra ) americana, Blainville, “ Nouv Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 73,80.” 
Desmarest, Mamm. II, 1822, 478. 
Capra americana, Rich. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 268 ; pi. xxii. 
Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. IV, 1836, 137. 
Baird, Rep. U. S. Pat. Off. Agricultural for 1851, (1852,) 120 ; plate. (From Rich.) 
Aud. & Bach. N. Am. Quad. HI, 1853, 128 ; pi. cxxviii. 
Mazama americana, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, (hoofed quadrupeds,) 1850, 19 .—Ib. Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. XVIII, 
1850, 136. 
Aplocerus americanus, Turner, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. XVHI, 1850, 174. 
Mazama sericea and dorsata, Raf. Am. Monthly Mag. I, 1817, 44. 
Antilope lanigera, Ham. Smith, Linn. Trans. XIH, 1822, 38 ; pi. iv.—I b. Griff. Cuv. IV, 1827, 286 ; plate. 
Wagner, in Schreber S'augt. V, 1836, 1246. 
Giebel, S'augt. 1855, 303. 
Antilope ( Aplocerus ) lanigera, Ham. Smith, Griff. Cuv. V, 1827, 354. 
Antilope ( Haplocerus) lanigera, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 462 .—Ib. V, 1855, 460. 
Capra columbiana, ‘‘Desmoulins, 1 Diet. Class. Ill, 580.” 
Fischer, Synopsis, 1829, 487. 
Rocky Mountain Sheep, Jameson, “ Wernerian Transactions, HI, 1821, 306.” 
Mountain Goal, Mountain Sheep, White Goat, fyc. Vulgo. 
Sp. Ch.—E ntirely white. Horns, hoofs, and edge of nostrils black. Hair long and pendant. A beard-like tuft of hair 
on the chin. 
1 1 have not been able to verify the date of this reference, which Fischer considers as prior to the other names quoted 
above. If anterior to 1815, Desmoulins' name will take precedence of that of Ord. 
