CAPRINE 77 



red with a brown stripe on Imck, white spots on heads and 

 flanks ; horns light-coloured, curved in a single plane. 

 0. matschiei : more brownish grey in general colour, face 

 ash-grey rarely marked with white ; horns dark brown, 

 curved in a spiral with tips directly outwards. 



53. 8. 29. 49. Skin, mounted. Sardinia (?). 



Presented hy the Zoological Society, 1853. 



95. 4. 4. 1. Skin, mounted. Genargentu Eange, Central 

 Sardinia. Presented hy Ford G. Barclay, Esci., 1895. 



5. 3. 6. 3. Skin, mounted. Sardinia. 



Presented hy J. Poicland Ward, Fsq., 1905. 



61. 3. 24. 2. Skin, female. (?)Bred in London. 



Presented hy the Zoological Society, 1861. 



62. 12. 22. 2. Skin, female. (?) Bred in London. 



Same donor, 1862. 

 60. 4. 23. 1. Skeleton. (?) Bred in London. 



Same donor, 1860. 



55. 12. 26. 162. Skull, with horns. Sardinia; collected 



by W. Ewer, Esq. Same donor, 1855. 



95. 4. 16. 6, a. Skull, with horns. Genargentu Eange, 



Sardinia. Presented hy E. N. Buxton, Esq., 1895. 



95. 4. 16. 6-7. Two skins, one associated with the 



preceding specimen. Genargentu Eange. Same history. 



9. 1. 11. 1. Frontlet and horns. Corsica; collected by 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major. The curvature of the horns is 



normal, without terminal " perversion." Purchased, 1908. 



5. 3. 6. 2. Skin, young. Sardinia. 



Presented hy A. Bayley- IVorthington, Esq., 1905. 



III. OVIS ORIENTALIS. 



Ovis musimon var. orientalis, Brandt and Batzeburg, Med. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 54, 1829. 



Ovis gmelini, Blyth, Proa. Zool. Sac. 1840, p. 69 ; Brooke, ibid. 1875, 

 p. 526 ; Blanford, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, p. 88, 1876 ; Danford 

 and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 276, 1880, p. 55 ; W. L. 

 Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mas. pt. ii, p. 139, 1891 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, p. 258, 1896; Satunin, Zool. Jahrh. Syst. 

 vol. ix, p. 312, 1896; MatscJiie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1896, p. 97 ; Badde, Museum Caucasicum, vol. i, p. Ill, 1899; 

 Dinnik, Zajp. KavJi. old. Btiss. Geogr. ObsC. vol. xxvii, pt. 1, 

 p. 158, 1910. 



