ca 
160 MAMMALIA. 
Doubtful species. 
1, Capra? 
Antilope torticornis, Herm. Obs. Zool. i. 87. 
A. (Tragelaphus) torticornis, Fischer, Syn. 473. 
2. Antilope? grandicornis, Herm. Obs. Zool. 87; Fischer, Syn. 
466, 633. 
A. Aigocerus grandicornis, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 812. 
Subtribe V. Ovee. Forehead flat or concave. The horns are 
more or less spiral, wider than deep at the base, and slightly an- 
nulated in front. The females are often hornless. The skull has 
a more or less deep rounded suborbital pit, without any fissure ; 
the masseteric ridge ascending high before the orbit; the audi- 
tory bulla small; the basioccipital flat, more or less expanded 
anteriorly by the extension of the anterior pair of tubercles, the 
posterior ones small; the cutting-teeth are nearly equal-sized 
and shelving ; and there are no supplemental lobes to the grind- 
ers. The hoofs are triangular, and being shallow behind, they 
have distinct interdigital fossee. Males emitting no stench. 
Ovis, Linn. S. N.; Desm. 1804. 
Aries, Brisson, R. Anim. i. 48, 1762. 
Capra, sp., Illiger, 107, 1811. 
Ovis, Raii Syn. Quad. 73; Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846, 230. 
Ovis, part., Wagler, N. Syst. Amph. 32, 1830. 
Over, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. 1846, 230. 
Ovide, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 72, 1828. 
Capride, part., Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 137. 
Ovesidez, part., Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 182. 
Sheep, Penn. Hist. Quad. i. 32. 
Ovis v. Ammon, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 76. 
Aries, Rafinesque, Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 
In fighting they run a-tilt, adding hither the force of impulse 
to that of weight; incurious and timid; rarely bark trees. 
Pallas, and more lately Géné, Hodgson, Blasius, and Blyth, 
have pointed out the characters that define the limits of this genus, 
which Desmarest, Fischer, and several other authors are inclined 
to place with the Goat. 
The females are sometimes hornless. Gmelin noticed this with 
respect to O. Ammon, Blyth. O. Nahor and the female Corsi- 
can O. Musimon are generally hornless. : 
Blasius has remarked that the right horn of O. Argali, O. mon- 
tana, O. Nahor, O. Aries, O. Musimon and O. Vignei, winds to 
the left, but in the two latter species only slightly, while in O. — 
Tragelaphus, O. orientalis, O. Burhel and O. Cyprius, the night 
horn winds to the right. 
