THE MOUFLON 



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being very compact and neat. The hair is short and close on the body, with an 

 abundant tinder-wool, but in the rams is elongated into a short mane on the neck 

 and a fringe on the lower part of the throat. With the exception of a dark brown 

 line down the back, and a conspicuous light gray saddle-like patch on the sides of 

 the rams, the general color of the upper parts is foxy red, passing into ashy gray 

 on the head, while the muzzle, a streak on the rump, the sides of the tail, the feet, 

 and portions of the lower parts of the legs, and the under part of the body are 



THE MOUFIX>N. 

 (One-twelfth natural size.) 



white. The horns curve forward by the side of the face, and vary in length from 

 twenty to twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches. 



Although reported to have occurred formerly in parts of Greece and 

 the Balearic Isles, it does not seem certain that the mouflon was ever 

 an inhabitant of these countries, while Brehm is doubtful if its alleged former oc- 

 currence in Spain is a fact. At one time the mouflon was extremely numerous in 

 Corsica and Sardinia, accounts being extant of the slaughter of four hundred or five 

 hundred head during a single hunt. At the present day it is, however, far less 



