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Homer, and is probably the ancestor of the domestic animal, 
and it is by no means certain that the specimens now found 
in the islands referred to are not the progeny of the common 
form, run wild, as seems to be the case with the goats from 
the island of Ioura, to which the name of Capra dorcas has 
been given. 
Several examples of the Chamois (Rupicapra tragus ) have 
been shown in the Gardens. This goat-antelope, as it may 
THE MOUNTAIN GOAT. 
be termed, inhabits the elevated parts of the Pyrenees and of 
the Alps. They are carefully protected on the vast hunting 
preserves in Switzerland and the Tyrol, on which large num¬ 
bers are killed each year during the proper season. 
The so-called White, or Mountain Goat (Oreanwos 
montanus ), strictly speaking, is not a goat at all, but is more 
