220 African Zodlogij. 



sub-triangular, round in front, with twenty-three irregular pri?- 

 minent knots, extending along the external surface, with several 

 smaller at base, and interposed among the upper, of a dirty 

 horn-colour; beard short; general colour dirty brownish fawn, 

 with a dark streak along the back ; long hair under the throat. 



Var ? the Siberian Ibex, Ibex Apium Sibiricarum of Pallas, 

 pale grey and brown, black line on the back and down the front 

 of the legs, black space on the upper arm, and under parts white. 



Inhabits the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, Mount 

 Sinai, and probably Persia. 



Jaela, Chaldaic. Jaal, Arabic. Akko of Deuteronomy . 



Genus Ovis. 



Incisors g, canines 3 5, molars 1 1, — 32. Horns common (0 

 both sexes, sometimes wanting in the females ; they are volumin- 

 ous, viore or less angular, transversely wrinkled, pule coloured, 

 turned laterally in spiral directions, first towards the rear, 

 vaginating upon a porous bony axis : the forehead and chaffron 

 arched ; they have no lachrymary sinus, no muzzle, nor inguinal 

 pores; no beard properly so called. The females have twd 

 mammce ; the tail rather short ; ears small; legs slender; hair 

 of two kinds, one harder and close, the other woolly. In a do- 

 mestic state the wcol predominates, the horns vary or disappear, 

 the ears and tail lengthen, and several other characters undergo 

 modifications. The genus is gregarious in the mountains of the 

 four quarters of the globe. 



Ovis Tragelaphus. (Bearded Argali.) Adult male three 

 feet six inches at the shoulder ; five feet nine inches from nose 

 to tail ; head one foot three inches ; horns two feet long, 

 wrinkled, angular, black, thirteen inches and a half in circum- 

 ference at the base, and turned spirally back and downwards ; 

 a large beard from the cheeks and under-jaw, divided into two 

 lobes ; neck short, lined with a standing mane ; knees covered 

 by long dense hairs bent back ; general colour rufous-brown ; 

 external hoofs of the fore-feet longer than the internal ; six in- 

 cisor teeth. 



Inhabits the mountains of Mauritiania (Morocco.) 

 Tragelaphus, Caius in Gesner. Fishtail andLerweeofShaw. 



Var. Size of the common Ram ; horns eleven inches in cir- 

 cumference, bending outwards and backwards ; no tuft or mane 

 on the shoulders ; long tufts of hair round the fore-knees; tail 

 6ix or seven inches long ; general colour pale rufous. 



Inhabits the mountains of Upper Egypt. 



MouflonD'Afrifiue, Geoff. Bearded Sheep, Pen. Ophion, Plin. 



