CAPRINE 70 



A.— Ovis orientalis orientalis. 



Ovis ophion, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 69 ; Brooke, ibid. 1875, 



p. 526; Alston and Danford, ibid. 1880, p. 59; Biddulph, ibid. 



1884, p. 594, pi. Ixviii ; Langkavel, Zool. Gavten. vol. xxxiv, 



p. 183, 1891; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 256, 1896; 



Giinthcr, Journ. Linn. Soc. — Zool. vol. xxvi, p. 374, 1900. 

 Ovis cyprius, Blasius, Sdugetli. Dcutschlands, p. 473, 1857. 

 Caprovis ophion, Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1872. 

 Musimon cyprius. Sever tzow. Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoiu, vol. viii, art. 2, 



p. 85, 1873. 

 Ovis cypria, Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoio, vol. viii, art. 2, 



p. 153, 1873. 

 Ovis orientalis ophion, LydeTiker, Wild Oxen, Sheej}, and Goats, 



p. 163, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 137, 1901 ; 



Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 413, 1910. 

 Ovis orientalis onentolis, Nasonov,'Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, 



p. 1271. 



Typical locality Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. 



Size small (about 26J^ inches at withers). General colour 

 rufous fawn above (browner in winter), white beneath, with 

 indistinct blackish dorsal stripe for a short distance above 

 withers, and narrow blackish band dividing rufous from 

 white area, which is continued down thighs near front; a 

 more or less distinct light saddle-patch, most apparent in 

 winter. A blackish crest down throat and chest, expanding 

 into small ruff inferiorly. Front of fore-legs above knees 

 blackish ; dark patches inside thighs above hocks ; tail-tip 

 black ; ears grey externally, white internally. Forehead, 

 upper part of muzzle, and area in front of eyes dusky brown ; 

 nose, chin, and throat white. Outer front angle of liorns 

 completely bevelled off. 



85. 3. 2. 1. Skin, mounted. Troodos Eange. Figured 

 by Col. Biddulph, loc. cit. 



Presented hy Gen. Sir R. Biddidph, G.C.B., 1885. 



0. 1. 16. 1. Mounted female head. Cyprus. 



Presented hy Lieut.-Col. J. Marriott, 1900. 



85. 6. 6. 1. Skin and horns. Troodos Piange ; shot by 

 Gen. Sir Pv. Biddulpli. Presented hy Col. J. Biddulph, 1885. 



S%. 11. 31. 1-2. Two skins, with horns. Troodos liange. 

 Presented hy Hamilton Lang, Esq., 1886. 



