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It resembles sheep in the minute structure of its hair, in its hairy muzzle, and in having interdigital glands on all its feet. Like goats, it has no sub-orbital gland nor distinct pit. Like the chamois, it has a gland below and behind the ear, the secretion of which has a caprine odor. It has also glands on the rump.
A recapitulation of these differences would be too minutely technical for insertion here, and it must be enough to say that while it cannot be assigned to either group, yet in the distribution of hair on the muzzle, in the presence of a small suborbital gland, in shortness of tail and the light color of its horns, it is sheep-like; in the absence of interdigital glands, the shortness and stoutness of its cannon bones, and in the presence of a small accessory inner column on the upper molars, it is bovine.
Interdigital glands on all 2. Interdigital glands, when the feet. present, only on fore feet. Suborbital gland and pit 3. Suborbital gland and pit usually present. never present. No beard nor caprine 4. Male with a beard and smell in male. caprine smell. Horns with coarse transverse 5.
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