138 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



Museum owes the handsome ram now mounted in the mammalian 

 gallery.^ The collection also contains the head of a female, presented hy 

 Captain J. Marriott. 



In height the ram of the Cyprian muflon stands only ahout 26 inches 

 at the shoulder ; and the length of the longest pair of horns known is but 

 24 inches, their basal girth being 8 inches, and the interval between the 

 tips 4o inches. 



In addition to its inferior bodily stature, one ot the chief features by 

 which the Cyprian race is distinguished from the typical continental repre- 



FiG. 30. — Head of Male Cyprian Muflon. From a figure by Colonel J. Biddulpli in the 

 Proceedingi of the Zoological Society of London for 1884. 



sentative of the Asiatic mufion is the rounding off of the outer front angle 

 of the horns of the rams, in consequence of which the front and outer 

 surfaces of the horns are continuous. Occasionally, however, according to 

 Messrs. Danford and Alston, specimens of the Armenian race are met with 

 displaying the same feature, so that the difference is not very great in this 

 respect between the two forms. In correlation with the slender and deer- 

 like build of the animal, the horns are slighter and less massive than in the 



' In Mlltl Oxen, Sleep, and Goats the specimen is said to hax'e been presented by, instead of" 

 through, Colonel J. Biddulph. 



