CAPRINiE 123 



OcL^. Two teats ; tail relatively long, reaching nearly to 

 hocks, with long liairs on terminal half. No face-glands or 

 foot-glands. No heard ; males not malodorous. Skull 

 without lachrymal pits. Yertehr?e: c. 7, d. 13, l. 6, s. 4, 

 ca. 14. 



Eestricted to North Africa. 



AMMOTRAGUS LERYIA. 



Antilope lervia, Pallas, Sjncil. Zool. fasc. xii, p. 12, 1777. 



Ovis tragelaphus, Cuvicr, Reg7ie Animal, vol. i, p. 268, 1817 ; Dcs- 



marest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 486, 1822 ; H. Smith, Griffith's 



Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 319, v, p. 359, 1827 ; Gray, List 



Mamm. Brit. Mas. p. 169, 1843 ; Floiuer and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 



Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 248, 1884 ; Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. 



Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, p. 288, 1885 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 



Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 141, 1891 ; Flower and LydeJclier, Study of 



Mammals, p. 354, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 257, 



1896. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) tragelaphus, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, pp. 13 



and 76. 

 Ammotragus tragelaphus. Gray, Knoiuslcy Menagerie, vol. ii, p. 40, 



1850, Cat. Ungidata Brit. Mus. p. 179, 1852, Cat. Ruminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 134, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mies. p. 134, 



1873 ; Gcrrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 252, 1862. 

 Musimon tragelaphus, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. p. 192, 1853. 

 iEgoceros tragelaphus, Heuglin, Petermann's Mitt. 1861, p. 16. 

 Aries tragelaphus, Lataste, Explor. Scient. Tunisie, Mamm. p. 35, 



1887. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) lervia, LydeJil-er, Wild Oxen, Sheej). and Goats, 



p~ 226, 1898, Game Aniinals of Africa, p. 86, 1908. 

 Ovis lervia, Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm. p. 334, 



1902 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 389, 1910 ; Rothschild, 



Novit. Zool. vol. XX, pt. 2, 1913. 

 Ammotragus lervia, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, p. 13 ; 



Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 862 ; LydekJcer, The Sheep and 



Its Cousins, p. 302, 1912. 



Arui: Barbary Sheep. 



Typical locality Mauretania. 



Size comparatively large ; shoulder-height ahout 39 inches. 

 Head relatively long and narrow, with rather large ears ; a 

 short upright mane from neck to middle of back ; long hair 

 developed on throat, sides of body and limbs. Tips of 

 horns directed inwards, or inwards and downwards. General 

 colour of head, upper-parts, and outer side of limbs uniform 

 rufous or greyish brown, rather darker on mane ; inside of 

 ears, chin, middle line of under-parts, and inner surface of 



