. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . sented 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 maleshav
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . sented 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 they are of a dazzling white color; theyare extended horizontally on each side of the head, and form spirals, some- 372 MAMMAL r A—S H E E P. what like a worm. The horns of the female are short, and first turn roundbackwards, then bend down, and turn round before, so much, that they endnear the eyes; and in some their circumference and direction vary. Themale and female goat of Angora, which we have seen, are such as we have. described. These goats, like all the animals of Syria, have the hair verylong and thick, and so fine that stuffs have been made of it, almost ashandsome and glossy as our silks. It is, in fact, what Is commonly termedmohair. The stuffs made from the hair of this goat are known by the nameof camlet. ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEPi Inhabit the lofty chain of mountains from whence they derive their name ;from its northern termination in latitude sixty-eight, to about latitude fortydegrees, and most likely still further south. They also frequent the elevatedand craggy ridges with which the country between the great mountainrange and the Pacific is intersected; but they do not appear to have advancedfurther to the eastward than to the declivity of the Pvocky Mountains, nor arethey found in any of the hilly tracts nearer to Hudsons Bay. They collectin flocks, consistin
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