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" The very fact of this animal inhabiting the low Salt range of the 

 Tunjal), at an altitude of 2000 feet, would indicate the prohahility 

 of its distinctness from the preceding, which is not found under an 

 elevation of 12000 feet. The Oorial has been well described by 

 Major Hay, Captain Hutton, and Dr. Adams, as above referred to ; and 

 it is hardly necessary to repeat the details of its habits and manners. 

 The differences in the horns, as well as those of its general external 

 appearance, are sufficiently ob\dous, as wUl appear on examination 

 of the figures, to leave no doubt as to its specific difterencc from the 

 tSha^JOo. The skuU and horns from Griffith's Afghanistan collec- 

 tion, referred to in Dr. Horsfield's * Catalogue of Mammalia ' 

 (p. 175), belong to the species. On comparing the skull with that 

 of the Shcipoo, we observe a general resemblance. But it may be 

 noted that the suborbital pits in the present species are smaller, 

 deeper, and more rounded, the nasal bones are considerably shorter 

 and more pointed, and the series of molar teeth (formed in each 

 skull of three premolar and thi-ee true molars) measures only 2'85 

 instead of 3-20 inches in total length." 



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3. Caprovis (Musimon) orientalis. (The Armenian Sheep.) B.M. 



Caprovis (Musimon) orientalis, Gra;/, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. ] 72. 

 *? Ovis orientalis, Blasius, Siiuyeth. Deutsch. p. 472, f. 249, 2.50 (skull 



and horns). 



Hah. Armenia; Erzeroom (C'w;:o J) ) ; Tunis (i^raser). (SeeBlyth, 

 ' Lund aud Water,' Feb. 1867.) 



4. Caprovis musimon. (The Moufflon.) B.M. 



. Capro\as musimon, Gray, Cat. Vngul. li. M. p. 173. 



Y [ Capra musimon, Masius, Sduyeth. Beutsch. p. 471, f. 247, 248 (skull). 



"^ Hub. Sardinia ; Corsica. 



5. Caprovis arkal. 



Ovis arkal, Masius, Siiugeth. Deutsch. p. 409, f. 243, 244 (skull and 

 horns). 



Hah. Borders of the Caspian Sea ; Turcoman. 



6. Caprovis ophion. 



Caprovis musimon, var., Gray, Cat. TJnyul. B. M. p. 173. 



Ovis cvprius, Blasiiis, Siiugeth. Deutsch.^. A7Q,t2bl,252 {sk\A\&uA. 



horns). 

 Ovis eyenica, Fitzinger. 



Hah. Cyprus ; Candia ; Corsica. 



a. Ovis anafolica, Valenciennes, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 340. 

 Hah. Bulgardash. Between 0. musimon and 0. tragehqjhus. 



