ROCKY See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

MOUNTAIN See also:

• GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

GOAT, or See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

WHITE GOAT (Oreamnus montanus)  , a See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICAN

American hollow-horned ruminant of the See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• BOVIDAE

BOVIDAE, distinguished by its See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour . It is, in fact, the only ruminant, with the exception of the white Alaskan See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep, which is entirely white at all seasons of the See also:

• YEAR

year; and cannot, therefore, be mistaken for any other See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal, and its description may consequently be brief . In the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter coat the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair is See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and pendent, elongated into a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
• BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

beard on the sides of the See also:

• LOWER

lower See also:

• JAW (Mid. Eng. jawe, jowe and geowe, O. Eng. cheowan, connected with " chaw " and " chew," and in form with " jowl ")

jaw behind the See also:

• CHIN

chin; and it is also longer than elsewhere on the See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck and the See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest; at the See also:

• BASE

base of the long hair is a thick growth of short and woolly under-See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur . In summer the coat becomes comparatively short . The muzzle is hairy, the ears are of moderate See also:

• SIZE

size, and the tail is short, and partially buried among the long hair of the rump . There are no glands on the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face; but there is a large globular one at the base of each See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn of the size of See also:

• HALF

half a small See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

orange . The See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black horns, which are ringed in their basal portion, are comparatively short and not unlike those of the See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic serows in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general characters, being subcylindrical, and curving slightly back-wards . They See also:

• TAPER (probably of Celtic origin, cf. Irish tapar, Welsh tampr, taper, torch)

taper, however, much more rapidly than those of the serows, and diverge much more widely from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle See also:

• LINE

line, The lateral hoofs are well See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed . Although commonly described as white, the hair has a more or less decided tinge of yellow, which appears to be more marked in the summer than in the winter coat . The See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon-bones are remarkably short and wide, and in this respect differ from those of all allied ruminants, except the Tibetan See also:

• TAKIN

takin . The general shape of the animal is ungainly, owing to a huge hump on the withers, at which point the height is about 3 ft . The See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a white See also:

• GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

goat obtained in 1900 from the mountains at the mouth of See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

Copper See also:

• RIVER

river, opposite Kyak See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, has been described as a See also:

• SPECIES

species apart .

In addition to certain details in the conformation of the See also:

• SKULL

skull, the horns are much more slender than in the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary white goat, and instead of bending regularly backwards till near their tips, See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve widely outwards from their bases . Their length is nearly equal to that of thelongest pair of the ordinary See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form hitherto recorded, while the tip-to-tip See also:

• INTERVAL

interval is nearly See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double that of any other known specimen . This animal can scarcely be regarded as more than a See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• RACE

race, and should be styled Oreamnus montanus kennedyi . The See also:

• AFFINITIES

affinities of the white goat (which is really a member of a See also:

• GROUP

group intermediate between goats and antelopes) are probably with the Asiatic serows and takin, and hence perhaps with the See also:

• MUSK (Med. Lat. muscus, late Gr. µbvXos, possibly Pers. mushk, from Sansk. mushka, the scrotum)

musk-ox . See a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper by See also:

• MADISON
• MADISON, JAMES (1751–1836)

Madison See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, entitled " The Rocky See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain Goat," published in the ninth See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report of the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York Zoological Society (1905) . (R . L .