76 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Typical locality Sardinia ; the name 0. m. occidentcdis is 

 available for tlie Corsican race. 



Size small ; shoulder-height about 27 inches. Horns 

 generally, or frequently, curving forwards in " amnion " 

 fashion by the sides of the face, but in some instances 

 " perverted " ; females either horned or polled. General 

 colour of upper-parts reddish or blackish brown, darker in 

 winter than in summer ; a blackish median streak on neck 

 and shoulder, extending as a blackish shade behind the 

 latter ; a conspicuous greyish white saddle-patch in adult 

 rams in winter. Under-parts and inner sides of limbs dull 



Fig. 24. — Head of Saedinian Mouflox {Ovis musivion). 

 From a photograph lent by the New York Zoological Society. 



whitish ; a black area on lower surface of neck, continued 

 down upper part of leg and as a narrow stripe on part of 

 shank nearly to hoofs ; dark area of upper-parts divided from 

 white of belly by dark flank-band ; tail black above, whitish 

 beneath. 



Horns are known to occur in some Corsican ewes, while 

 hornless qwq^ are common in Sardinia, but whether this is 

 a constant difference remains to be proved. The state- 

 ment that Sardinian rams have normal and Corsican rams 

 " perverted " horns is not borne out by the facts. 



Duerst recognises two kinds of mouflon living side by 

 side, alike in Sardinia and Corsica, viz. : 0. mitsimon : foxy 



