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Thomas Pennant

Synopsis of Quadrupeds

Engraved portrait of Thomas Pennant, eighteenth centuryThomas Pennant
Image & authority record ↗
01 / Publication1771Chester: J. Monk
02 / SpecimenAmsterdamSkin reported as brought from the Cape of Good Hope

A. with sharp-pointed, taper, arcuated horns bending backwards, marked with twenty prominent rings, but smooth towards their points, twenty inches long: ears sharp-pointed, above nine inches in length: larger than a buck: color, when alive, a fine blue; when dead, changes to a bluish grey, with a mixture of white: hairs long: beneath each eye a large white mark: belly white: tail seven inches long; the hairs at the end six inches. From a skin bought at Amsterdam1, brought from the Cape of Good Hope; where they are found, but far up the country. This is the species which, from the length of its hair and form of the horns, connects this genus with that of the Goat.

Edition

Printed source
Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of Quadrupeds (Chester: J. Monk, 1771), entry 13, “Blue,” pp. 24–25.

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Reference

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Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of Quadrupeds (Chester: J. Monk, 1771), entry 13, “Blue,” pp. 24–25.

Pennant, 1771, p. 24. Smithsonian Libraries / Internet Archive.

Pennant, 1771, p. 24. Smithsonian Libraries / Internet Archive.