-^ Anthropology : Historical 



the least shortened tail is the mouflon of Corsica and Sardinia. 

 In most examples of this animal, especially in the males, the 

 tail scarcely exceeds three inches in length from root to tip, 

 but I have seen examples in which the tail was decidedly 

 longer. In one, still present in the Gardens of the Zoological 

 Society, London, the tail measures nearly six inches from root 

 to tip, and looks a little longer, because it ends in a slight tuft. 



336. RAM nV MANEI) SHKEP, LIBERIA 



The European mouflon has long been extinct except in Corsica 

 and Sardinia, though there is a tradition that it was once found 

 in Greece and in the Balearic Islands. May it not have been 

 that in the Continental form of the true mouflon, which no 

 doubt once ranged through Southern Europe, from Spain to 

 France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Balkans and Greece, 

 the tail retained its primitive length, and that it was only in 



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