MAMMALIA. — 161 
Synopsis oF GENERA OF OVE. 
1. Ovis. Crumen distinct. Tail elongated. Skin covered with 
wool or adpressed hair. 
2. Caprovis. Crumen distinct. Tail very short. Skin covered 
with thick hair, covering the wool. 
3. Pseupo1s. Crumen none. Tail rather elongated. Forehead 
convex. Skin covered with thick hair. 
4. AMMotraGus. Crumen none. Tail rather elongated. Fore- 
head concave. Skin covered with short hair, and elongated 
tuft of hair. 
a. Crumen distinct. Infraorbital pit distinct. 
1. Ovis. 
Forehead convex. Horns more or less spiral, bent imwards at 
the tips, varying greatly in size and form. Crumen distinct. 
Tail more or less elongated. Body covered with wool or close- 
pressed hair. Skull with a more or less deep suborbital pit, but 
no fissure. 
Ovis, sp., Linn. 
Capra, sp., Blumenb.; Fischer. 
Musmon, Schrank, Fauna Boica. 
Aries, Rafin. Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 
1. Ovis (Artes) ArniES. The SHEEP. 
Egoceros Aries, Pallas; Wagner. 
Ovis Aries, Linn. S. N. 1.97; Gmelin, S. N.i.197; Eral. 242; 
Desm.. Mam. 488 ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M.169; List Osteol. 
B. M. 61; List Hodgson Mam. & Birds B. M.; Sundevall, 
Pecora, 89. 
Ovis domestica, Brisson, Rég. Anim. 74. 
Capra Ovis, Blumenb. Naturg. x. 116. 
Capra Aries, Fischer, Syn. 489. 649. 
Musmon Aries, Schrank, Faun. Boic. i. 46. 
Pecus, Aries, Ovis, Plin. H. N. vu. 47, 48. 
Ovis Aries, &c., Gesner, Quad. 872. f. 873, 925, 926; Jonst. 
Quad. 54. t. 22; Linn. Amen. Acad. iv. 169. 
| Sheep, Penn. B. Z.10; Youatt, Sheep, their breeds, §c.; Low, 
Dom. Anim. Brit. Islands. 
Ram, Penn. Syn. 10. 
Belier et Brebis, Buffon, H. N.v.1. t.1,2; Schaf. Meyer Thiere, 
i. t. 51; Walther, Wetterau Ann. 1. 283. 
_ Hab. Domesticated. 
