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I. OVIS ARIES. 



Ovis aries, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 70, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 97, 1766; LydeJcker, The Sliecjp and Its Cousins, pp. 1, 47, 

 1912. 



The type of the genus, and not definitely known in a 

 wild state,, although it is most probable that the mouflon 

 {0. musimon) is one of the ancestral forms. If this were 

 proved to be the case, that animal should be known as Ovis 

 aries musimon. 



II. OVIS MUSIMOX. 



Ovis musimon, Schreher {ex Pallas), Sdugthiere, vol. v, pi. cclviii> 

 1782 ; Wagner, Suxipl. to do. vol. iv, ^. 242, 1844 ; Gray, Knowsley 

 Menagerie, p. 36, 1850; Blasius, Sdageth. Deutschlands, p. 471, 

 1857; Cornalia, Fauna Ital. — Mamm. p. 56, 1870; Severtzoiv, 

 Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoiu, vol. viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873; Flower 

 and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 243, 1884 ; 

 Flower and LydekJcer, Study of Mammals, p. 356, 1891 ; Brehm, 

 Tierlehen, ed. 3, Sdugeth. vol. iii, p. 220, 1891 ; Lydehher, Wild 

 Oxen, Sheej), and Goats, p. 154, 1898, Great and Small Game of 

 Europe, etc. p. 132, 1901, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 46, 1912; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 414, 1910 ; Pococh, Proc, 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 857 ; Tesdorpf, Einbilrgerung des Muffelwildes 

 (Mouflons) auf dem europdischen Festlande, Neudamm, 1910, 

 p. 9 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 242, 1910 ; Nasonov^ 

 Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, p. 1292; Miller, Cat. Mamm. 

 W. Europe Brit. Mus. p. 987, 1912; Satunin, Mitt. Kaukas. 

 Mus. vol. vii, p. 78, 1912. 



yEgoceros musimon, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso. -Asiaf. vol. i, p. 230, 1811. 



Ovis musmon, H. Smith, Griffitli's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 322, 

 V, p. 360, 1827; Jardine, Nat. Lihr.-Mamm. vol. iv, p. 132, 

 1836; Bonaparte, Iconogr. Fauna Ital.-Indice distrib. 1811. 



Capra musmon, Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 488, 1829. 



Ovis musimon var. occidentalis, Brandt and Ratzeburg, Med. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 55, 1829. 



Caprovis musimon, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, 

 p. 702, 1847 ; Gray, Cat. Ungidata Brit. Mus. p. 173, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 132, 1873. 



Musimon musmon, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 191, 1855; 

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



Musimon musimon, Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, 

 art. 2, p. 85, 1873. 



(?) Ovis matschiei, Duerst, in Wilclicns' Grundzilge Naturgcsch. 

 Haustiere, ed. 2, pp. 177 and 180, Leipsic, 1905. 



Mouflon. 



