THE FIGVRE OF ANOTHER Tragelaphus or Deere-goate, expressed by BELLONIVS.
THere is another Tragelaphus (saith he) whereof I finde no name among the French: it wanteth a beard,* 1.1 and the Haire thereof resembleth an Ibex-goate (whose description follow∣eth afterward among Goates:) the hornes heereof are like a Goats, but more crooked and bending, compassing be∣hinde [ 40] as a Rammes doe, which he neuer looseth. His face, Nose, and eares, are like a sheepes, the skinne of his Cods being very thicke and hanging downe. His Legs are white like a sheepes, his taile white; his haires are so long about his necke and stomacke, that you would thinke it were bearded. His haire on the shoulders and brest blacke, and it hath two gray spots on his flanks on ei∣ther side: the Nostriles are blacke, the beake or face White; so also is the belly beneath, but the description heereof seemeth rather to agree with a Pygargus, or Musmon, of which I shall speake afterward.
[ 50] I doe rather approue the relation of another of this kinde, which was sent vnto me by that most learned English Physition Iohn Cay, which as he writeth vnto me, was brought in the yeare 1561. out of the Countrey of Mauritania, which was clouen-footed and liueth for the most part in the Mountaine partes of that Countrey, being in quantity betwixt a fallow-deere and a Hart, the body more like a Hart, and the side branded and hanging downe: a shorter and thicke necke, the colour in the Winter blacke, and red, set one with