European Muflon 



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Caprovis mi/sinion, Hodgson, Jour/?, .is. Soc. Boiga/., vol. xvi. p. 702 

 (1847) ' Gray, Cat. U/igii/ata Brit. Mi/s. p. 173 (1852), Cut. Riiminauts Brit. 

 Mus. p. 56 (1872). 



MiisiiHoii /iiiis/iioii^ Gervais, Hist. Ntit. Mxiinni. vol. ii. p. 191 (1855) ; 

 Graells, Mem. Ac. Madrid., vol. xvii. p. 369 (1897). 



Plate XII. 



Characters. — Size small, the height at the shoulder being about 27 

 inches ; females usually hornless. Horns of male fairly large, stout, and 



Fit;. 29. — Head of male European Muflon. From a specimen in the British Museum. 

 (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Gume.) 



strongly wrinkled ; the frt)nt surface markedly distinct from the outer one, 

 the front outer angle rounded off, but the inner one distinct ; the curvature 

 of the horns forming a close spiral of about one complete circle, vs'ith the 

 tips bending forwards and outwards so as to be situated almost immediately 

 below the eyes. Hair close and thick, elongated in winter on the throat 

 of the rams to form a distinct fringe, and with a thick coat ot woolly 



