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Title: The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Tristram, H. B. (Henry Baker), 1822-1906
Subjects: Animals -- Palestine Plants -- Palestine
Publisher: London, The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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re many differentbreeds or races. The ordinary Black Goat of Syria, universal through-out the country, with pendent ears a foot long, hanging down far belowthe recurved horns, has been distinguished as Capra inambrica, L. Syst.Nat. i., 95. The INIohair-Goat (Capra angorciisis, L. Syst. Nat. i., 94)is occasionally bred in some parts of the north of Palestine. 19. Capra beden. Wagn. Schreb. Saug. V. a. 1303. (C sinaitica.Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., t. 18.) Ibex. Heb. D*Sy\ Arab. ^\, Bcden. Plate II.The Syrian Ibex, or Beden, is still f<5und, not only in the ravines otMoab, but in the wilderness of Judaea, near the Dead Sea. I have pro-cured several specimens on both sides of Jordan. It is not now known inthe north or in Lebanon, where I have found its teeth in cave-breccia, alongwith flint implements. The Beden is of a much lighter fawn colour thanthe European Ibex, with horns much more slender and recurved, wrinkledand knotted on the front face only. It is the Wild Goat of Scripture. PI.II
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,1 hiK Haiiliat-l imp CAFRA BEUER MAMMALIA. 7 I obtained it twice at Engedi, where it is mentioned in connection withDavids wanderings. Its range appears to he Hmited to Arabia Petreaand Egypt. 20. Ovis arics. L. Syst. Nat. i., p. 97. Sheep. Heb. IXV. Arab,^ti±^ GJianam. Two varieties of Sheep are bred in Palestine ; but by far the mostcommon, and in most parts the only race, is the Broad-tailed Sheep (i>ar.:laticaudata). The Palestine Sheep are generally piebald or skewbald ;while the Goats are almost always black. The habits of the Sheep, theways of tending them, and the life of the shepherds in Syria, remainunchanged even in the smallest particulars since the days of thePatriarchs. Bovinas. 2\. Bos tanrus. L. Syst. Nat. i., p. 98. The Ox. Heb. C;l?NV lltT,Ox; *lp3. Cow; 13, Bull. Arab. ^\, Bakar, Ox; ayij, Bakara, Cow;^y, Siiwr, Bull. Neat cattle are not suited to the hilly central districts, and are notreared extensively, e.xcepting in the sea-board and southern plains, and in

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