AOUDAD.—Ammeotragus Tragélaphu 
are not suffered to lie unobserved on the ground, but are soon utilized by the foxes and 
other small mammalia which inhabit the same country, and converted at once into dwelling- 
houses, where they lie as comfortably as the hermit-crab in a whelk-shell. Man also 
makes use of these horns, by converting them into various articles of domestic economy. 
It is a mountain-loving animal, being found on the highest grounds of Southern 
Siberia and the mountains of Central Asia, and not fond of descending to the level 
ground. 
Its power of limb and sureness of foot are truly marvellous when the great size of 
the animal is taken into consideration. If disturbed while feeding in the valley, it makes 
at once for the rocks, and flies up their cragey surfaces with wonderful ease and rapidity. 
Living in such localities, they are liable to suffer great changes of temperature, and 
are sometimes wholly enveloped in the deep snow-drifts that are so common upon 
mountainous regions. In such cases they le quietly under the snow in a manner 
sunilar to that which has already been re slated of the hare under the same circumstances, 
and are able to continue respiration by means of a small breathing-hole through the 
snow. For these imprisoned Argalis the hunters eagerly search, as the animal is 
deprived of its fleet and powerful limbs, and is forced ignominiously to succumb to the 
foe, who impales him by driving his spear through the snow into the creature's body 
Like others of the same group, it is gregarious, and lives in small flocks. 
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ANOTHER example of the Mouflons may be found in the Bic-HorN, or Rocky MOUNTAIN 
SHEEP, of California. 
This animal is not at all uncommon in its native land, where it may be found in little 
troops of twenty or thirty in number, inhabiting the craggiest and most inaccessible rocks. 
From these posts of vantage they never wander, but are content to find their food upon 
