Ægæon ichthys (e"jionikthis)

[NL., ægagropile (e-gag'rō-pil), n. IMG:content-0321.png:[graphic] Same as @ gagro pila. Also contracted ægropile. ægagrus (e-gag'rus), n.; pl. ægagri (-rī). [L., ægagrus 91 Ægithalinæ paseng or pasing of the Persians, and the wild ily Ægialitidæ . stock of most if not all of the breeds of the do- mestic goat. It is the Capra hircus of Linnæus, C. æga- grus of Gmelin and Pallas, C. caucasica of H. Smith, and Wild Goat (Capra agagrus ). Hircus ægagrus of J. E. Gray. J. F. Brandt a erts that this is incontestably and exclusively the source of the domestic goat. In fact, the name ægagrus may have been applied sometimes to goats run wild, and the Capra æga grus of both G. and F. Cuvier, the bezoar-goat, ascribed to Persia and the Alps, is said to have been merely the domestic goat run wild. The celebrated Angora goat may have been derived from a different species or variety, Capra falconer i, originating in central Asia. The goat or ægagrus in all its varieties is closely related to the ibex, the the phichtheistinct stomach and of goat, as those of tiodactyls, are found the concretions called bezoar - stones. Also written ægagre. Whether the Capra ægagrus or the Capra ibex should be regarded as the stock of domesticated goat of Europe has long been a question among naturalists; the weighty arguments which may be drawn from the character of the wild species which was as contemporary with the Bos primi genius @gagrus . [are] shown to be in favor of Capra Owen .