bouquetin

Alps (_antelope rupicapra_); and in the same localities, but more rarely seen, the "bouquetin," or "tur" (_aigocerus pyrenaicus_) -- a species of ibex, _not_ identical with the _capra ibex_ of Linnaeus and the Alpine mountains.

Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

It is the nearest town to the Maladetta, their highest point, in which the Garonne rises, and among whose rocks is one of the last strongholds of the ibex or bouquetin, the "wild goat" mentioned by

Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

The only remarkable creature is the mouflon, a species of sheep, resembling that almost extinct animal the bouquetin or ibex of the Alps. It inhabits the highest mountains, and though very wild is easily tamed.

Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads C. B. Black

For how many millions of years was there no approach to a road over the St. Gothard, save the untutored watercourses of the Ticino and the Reuss, and the track of the bouquetin or the chamois?

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

For how many millions of years was there no approach to a road over the St. Gothard, save the untutored watercourses of the Ticino and the Reuss, and the track of the bouquetin or the chamois?

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

The "wild goats of the rock," described in the chapter just quoted, are supposed to be the same as the ibex or bouquetin.

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

See here (in French, sorry): www. bouquetin-des-alpes.org / populations / vercors / vercors. htm

unknown title 2009

It's is commonly called an alpine Ibex or bouquetin in french.

unknown title 2009

It is a common notion of the hunters, adopted by many naturalists, that the age of a bouquetin may be estimated by the number of transverse ridges or knobs in the horns.

A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan 1812