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as it fell, and hit the rocks 400 feet below with a dull scrunching thud, 

 breaking one of the massive horns short off, and converting the hind- 

 quarters into a shapeless, bleeding pulp." 



In the course of about a day and a halTs shooting no less than nine 

 adult bighorn rams were bagged by Dr. Guillemard's party. 



ii. Ammotragine Group — Sub-Genus Ammotragus 



Amiiiotragiis, Blyth, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 13; Gray, Knoics/ey 

 Menagerie, p. 40 (1850), Cat. Vngulata Brit. Miis. p. 179 (1852). 



Characters. — Horns of males of the same general type as in the next 

 group, but transversely wrinkled when immature ; those of females large. 

 No face-glands, and no pits in the skull tor their reception. Colour 

 uniformly tawny throughout. A fringe of long hair on the throat, chest, 

 and upper portion of fore-legs. Tail much longer than in any other 

 member of the genus, and with long hair on its lower halt. 



Distribution . — Northern Africa. 



The Arui or African Sheep — Ovis lervia 



Antilope lervia., Pallas, Spicil Zool. fasc. xii. p. 12 [ijjj). 



Ovis tragelaplufs, Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. i. p. 268 (18 17); 

 Desmarest, Manunalogie., vol. ii. p. 486 (1822); H. Smith, in Griffith's 

 Animal Kingdom., vol. iv. p. 319, v. p. 3^9 (1827) ; Gray, L/V/ Mamni. Brit. 

 Mils. p. 169 (1843) ; Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix. p. 288 

 (1885) ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. hid. Mas. pt. ii. p. 141 (1891) ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 257 (1896). 



Ovis ornata, I. Geoffroy, Descrip. Egypte — Hist. Nat. vol. ii. p. 742, pi. 

 vii. (1833). 



Ovis {Ammotragus) tragelaplius, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, pp. 13 

 and 76. 



