. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ecies is more diffused than the sheep,and goats, like the European, are found in several parts of the world; onlyin Guinea and other warm countries they are smaller, but in Muscovy andother cold climates they are larger. ROCKY MOUNTAIN This animal inhabits the most lofty peaks of the Rocky Mountains, sel-dom descending so near the low countiy as the Rocky Mountain sheepTheir manners are said to resemble greatly those of the domestic exact limits
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ecies is more diffused than the sheep,and goats, like the European, are found in several parts of the world; onlyin Guinea and other warm countries they are smaller, but in Muscovy andother cold climates they are larger. ROCKY MOUNTAIN This animal inhabits the most lofty peaks of the Rocky Mountains, sel-dom descending so near the low countiy as the Rocky Mountain sheepTheir manners are said to resemble greatly those of the domestic exact limits of the range of this animal have not been ascertained,but it probably extends from the fortieth to the sixty-fourth, or sixty-fifth Capra vwntana, Obd. MAMMALIA—GOAT. 371 degree of latitude. It is coramon on the elevated part of the range thatgives origin to the Mackenzie, Columbia, Nelson, and Missouri fine wool which the animal produces, grows principally on the backand hips, and is intermixed with long coarse hair. From the circumstanceof its bearing wool, it has occasionally been termed a sheep by the voyagers,. anJ even by naturalists. Some little confusion has, therefore, crept mtothe accounts of its habits, which have been published from the reportsof traders. Its flesh is hard and dry, and is little esteemed. The Indiansmake caps and saddles of its skin. The Hudsons Bay company have verylately presented a perfect specimen of the goat to the Zoological animal is of the size of the domestic sheep, and is totally white, exceptthe horns, hoofs, lips, and margins of the nostrils. The horns are blackand shining. THE ANGORA GOAT Is found in Natolia in Asia Minor. It is distinguished from the Europeangoat, by the greater size of its ears, though it is only a variety of the samespecies; they mix and produce together, even in our climate. The maleshave horns almost as long as the common goat, but the circumference anddirections are very different, and th
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