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Ovis orientalis, Keyserling and Blasius, Wh'heltliiere Euroi). p. 29, 

 1840 ; Wagner, Schreber's Saugthiere, Stipj^I. vol. iv, p. 507, 1844 ; 

 Sevei-tzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoiv, voL viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873 ; 

 Nehring, Zool. Garten, vol. xxviii, p. 378, 1887 ; LydeJiJier, Wild 

 Oxen, Slieei), and Goats, p. 159, 1898, Large and Small Game of 

 Euro}je, etc. p. 135, 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xx, 

 p. 122, 1907, The Sheej) and Its Cousins, p. 253, 1912; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 412, 1910 ; Nasonov, Bull. Ac. 

 Sci. St. Petersh. 1910, p. 681, 1911, p. 1270. 



Ovis (Musimon) orientalis. Gray, Knoivsley Menagerie, p. 36, 1850. 



Caprovis (Musimon) orientalis. Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 

 p. 172, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1872; Gerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 251, 1862. 



Caprovis orientalis, Gray, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 131, 

 1873. 



Red Sheep. 



Typical locality Troodos Mountains, Cyprus ; the range 

 extendino; throug-h Asia Minor and Transcaucasia to Persia. 



Typically a small sheep (26 J inches at withers), Ijut 

 attaining larger dimensions (33 inches) on the Asiatic 

 mainland. Horns " perverted " homonymous, typically with 

 outer front angle bevelled off. Typically the general colour 

 bright rufous above in summer; in winter browner, with a 

 more or less distinct light saddle-patch ; a dark flank-band 

 separating rufous area from white of belly ; no white rump- 

 patch, and basal half of upper side of tail coloured like back, 

 but tip black. Muzzle, chin, throat (in summer), inner side 

 of ears, under-parts, buttocks below tail, and inner sides and 

 shanks of legs white ; throat-fringe, which may expand into 

 a distinct ruff, a line near front of thigh, and one on front of 

 fore-legs blackish. 



There has been much confusion as to which is the typical 

 race of this species, but it has been conclusively shown by 

 Nasonov that the Cyprian sheep is entitled to this position. 



The specimens in the collection do not suffice to form a 

 ^' key " to the local races ; and as Nasonov's work is in 

 Eussian the writer has been unable to avail himself of the 

 information it contains. It may he noted that the eastern 

 forms of the species appear to approximate — especially in 

 the greater development of the throat-ruff — to 0. vignei. 



