ARUI, OR BARBARY SHEEP 389 
Head of Arui., 
The ARUI, UDAD, or BARBARY SHEEP (Ovis lervia). 
(Also known as Ovis tragelaphus and Ammotragus lervia.) 
The only wild sheep found throughout the continent of Africa is 
the arui or fechstal of the Arabs, the udad or Barbary sheep of 
naturalists ; a species with horns not very unlike those of the bharal, 
and also lacking glands on the face, but readily distinguished by its 
uniformly tawny colour, the fringe of long hair depending from the 
throat, chest, and the upper portion of the fore-legs, and the unusual 
length of the tail, which exceeds that of all other wild sheep. In the 
length of this appendage the arui approaches domesticated sheep, of 
which, however, it is not the ancestor. Height at shoulder about 
3 feet 3 inches. 
Distribution—The mountains of Northern and North-Eastern Africa, 
from Morocco to Egypt, and thence southwards nearly to Khartum, 
in about lat. 16° N. 
