. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 129 Manama Serioea. Raffinesque Smaltz, Am. Monthly Mag. 1817, p. 44. Rocky Mountain Sheep. Jameson, Wernerian Trans., vol. iii. p. 806. Capea Montana. Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 253. " " Godraan, l-tat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 326. Antelope Lanigera. Smith, Linnaean Trans., vol. xiii. p. 38, t. 4. Capba Americana. Rich., F. B. A., p. 268, plate 22. Ann. 1821. DESCRIPTION. Form of the body and neck, robust, like that of the common Goat; nose, nearly straight; ears, pointed, lined
. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 129 Manama Serioea. Raffinesque Smaltz, Am. Monthly Mag. 1817, p. 44. Rocky Mountain Sheep. Jameson, Wernerian Trans., vol. iii. p. 806. Capea Montana. Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 253. " " Godraan, l-tat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 326. Antelope Lanigera. Smith, Linnaean Trans., vol. xiii. p. 38, t. 4. Capba Americana. Rich., F. B. A., p. 268, plate 22. Ann. 1821. DESCRIPTION. Form of the body and neck, robust, like that of the common Goat; nose, nearly straight; ears, pointed, lined with long hair; the horns incline slightly backwards, tapering gradually and not suddenly, uncinated like those of the chamois, transversely wrinkled with slight rings for nearly half their length from the base, and sharp pointed ; towards the tip they are smoth and polished. Tail shpf t, and though clothed with long hair, almost concealed by the hairs which cover the rump; legs, thick and short; secondary hoofs, flat, grooved on the soles, and resembling those of the common Goat. The coat is composed of two kinds of hair, the outer and longer considerably straighter than the wool of the sheep, but softer than that of the common Goat; this long hair is abundant on the shoulders, back, neck, and thighs ; on the chin there is a thick tuft forming a beard like that of the latter animal; under the long hairs of the body there is a close coat of fine white silky wool, quite equal to that of the Cashmere Goat in fineness. COLOUR. Horns, and hoofs, black; the whole body, white. DIMENSIONS. Length of head and body, tail, • head, - " horns, - Diameter of horns at base, Fmt. lachM. 3 4 1 11 6 1 HABITS. Standing " at gaze," ou a table-rock projecting high above the valley beyond, and with a lofty ridge of stony and precipitous mountains in the background, we have placed one of our ligures of the Rocky Mountain VOL. III.—17. Please note that these images are extracted f
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