DESCRIPTIONS 



OF TWENTY-SEVEN APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES AND 

 SUBSPECIES OF MAMMALS. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F.R.S.E., ETC. 



ORDER UNGULATA. 



FAM. BOVID^. 

 OVIS. 



Ovis cervina *cremnobates. Subsp. nov. 



Type locality: Mattomi, San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, Mexico. 



Geogr. distr.-.. San Pedro Martir, and probably the Laguna Moun- 

 tains, Lower California, Mexico. 



Genl. char.: Resembling the O. c. nelsoni from Grape Vine 

 Mountains, boundary of Nevada and Lower California, but of a much 

 lighter color, the head of a three-year-old ram being nearly white, 

 with a very small caudal patch f not divided from color of upper parts 



by any perceptible line; fore part of legs almost black, similar to those 

 of O. stonii; head very broad between orbits, from 20 to 25 mm. broader 

 in old rams than the head of O. c. nelsoni; horns tyf old rams very large 

 and curving outward from the head; those of ewes with the points 

 diverging widely apart. 



* X/n)f&oftaTJ)O haunter of the cliffs. 



t Misled by a dressed skin which showed th-i patch and the white of inner side of thighs 

 together, 1 said in my previous paper, p. 209. that this caudal patch was very large, when the con- 

 trary is the fact. 



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