MISCELLANEOUS 



FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 



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NATURAL HISTORY. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Mammaliology. 



1. THE Editor has lately ascertained, in the 

 most satisfactory manner, that the Californian animal 

 called Taye, of which some account is given in a for- 

 mer part of this Journal*, is, as Professor Zimmermann 

 suspected, thirty years ago, the Argali of the Kirgisian 

 Tartars : the Ovis Amnion of Linnaeus : the Mufflon of 

 Buffon. — From the lights which we now possess, it is 

 certain, that the Taye, upon which some of the Ameri- 

 cans have bestowed the appellation of the " Big- Horn," 

 is an inhabitant of three quarters of the globe, and that it 

 has once been most extensively diffused over the earth. — 

 The existence of this animal, in the western parts of 

 North-America, was known to the Spanish historians, 

 prior to the year 1633. 



* Vol. II. Part I. Art. XVIII. p. 106, &c. 



