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Separate and detailed accounts will be given of four out of the 

 six described subspecies. The other two require no more than brief 

 mention here. 



The typical Barbary Sheep (A. 1. lervia l ) is still rather wide- 

 spread and moderately common. It ranges from Morocco through 

 Algeria to Tunisia. The subspecific status of the animal of Rio de 

 Oro and Mauretania remains to be determined. 



Although the Sudan Arui (A. I. blainei 2 ) seems to have suffered 

 some reduction in range, and probably in numbers as well, it is not 

 yet to be classed among the vanishing forms. It ranges west of the 

 Nile through the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Dongola, Kordofan, and 

 Darfur) . Some form of Ammotragus lervia (perhaps blainei) is also 

 common in Ennedi and Tibesti, French Equatorial Africa, while a 

 few of the animals are found as far south as Wadai, below latitude 

 15 N. (Malbrant, 1936, p. 49). 



Egyptian Arui. Mouflon a Manchettes (Fr.) 



AMMOTRAGUS LERVIA ORNATA (I. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire) 



Ovis ornata I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., vol. 11, p. 264, 



1827. ("Near the gates of the city of Cairo.") 

 FIG.: Savigny, Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat., Atlas, vol. 1, Mammif., pi. 7, fig. 2, 



Some years ago this sheep was apparently brought to the verge 

 of extinction by extended drought and by hunting, but more recently 

 good rainfall and a measure of protection have considerably im- 

 proved the animal's status. 



General color reddish fawn ; dorsal line brownish ; under parts 

 and inner surfaces of limbs white; a median longitudinal black spot 

 between the legs; fringe of hairs on lower neck 12-13 inches long, 

 on forelegs 6-7 inches long; beard on each jaw 2-4 inches long; tail 

 with a terminal brush. Horns at base somewhat quadrangular; tips 

 directed inwards and tapering to a point; wrinkles little developed, 

 and only toward the base. (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, op. cit., 

 pp. 264-265.) 



The Egyptian Arui is now confined to the region between the 

 lower Nile and the Red Sea. There are also unverified reports of 



1 Ant^il&pe] Lervia Pallas, Spieil. Zool., fasc. 12, p. 12, 1777. ("Africae 

 borealiori propria"; type locality restricted by Harper (1940, p. 327) to "De- 

 partment of Oran, western Algeria.") 



2 Ovis lervia blainei Rothschild, Novit. Zool., vol. 20, no. 2, p. 460, 1913. 

 ("Border of Dongola Province and Kordofan," Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.) 



