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rams it becomes nearly or quite pure white ; and in this condition of coat 

 this fine Httle sheep is at its handsomest. 



In addition to skulls, the species is represented in the exhibition 

 galleries of the Natural History Branch of the British Museum by a ram 

 from Sardinia, presented by Mr. Ford Barclay in 1892. 



Muflon are found only on the higher and more exposed portions of 

 certain mountains in the two islands to which they are now restricted. 

 An excellent account of the habits of these sheep, as well as of muflon- 

 stalking, will be found in the first chapter of Mr. E. N. Buxton's Short 

 Stalks, and since extracts from this account have already been given in 

 Wild Oxen, Sheep, ami Goats of All Lands, no repetition is necessary on the 

 present occasion. The muflon in one of the enclosures in the Duke of 

 Bedford's park at Woburn Abbey grow remarkably fine horns, probably 

 from high feeding. 



THE ARMENIAN MUFLON 



{Ovis orientalis) 



(Plate III. Fig 5) 



At the date of writing Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats of All Lands no 

 mounted skin of the typical or Armenian race of the Asiatic muflon was 

 exhibited in the British Museum. Since that time this gap in the 

 magnificent series of wild sheep there shown has been filled up by the 

 generosity of Mr. G. C. R. Lee, who in 1900 presented a fine ram of 

 the present form shot in Asia Minor. From the European species the 

 Asiatic muflon (of which three local races may be recognised) differs by the 

 direction of the spiral of the horns, the right horn forming a left spiral 

 and the left horn a right spiral. This causes their tips to be situated over 



