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THE MUSMON OF CORSICA. 

 Ovis Musmon. 

 PLATE XL 



Musmon of Pliny Mufflon, Buffon, Cuvier, Fred. Cuvier. 



Hist, des Mammif. Ovis Musmon, Hamilt. Smith Ca- 



pra Musmon, Ariete Muffione, Bonaparte, loonogra 

 phia. 



THIS Sheep, now, we may say, so comparatively 

 little known, inhabits the mountainous wilds of Cor- 

 sica and Sardinia, and has there only to contend 

 against man as its enemy, no large carnivorous ani- 

 mal existing which would carry destruction among 

 its herds; and it is to this circumstance probably 

 that these inlands are indebted to the remnants of the 

 flocks which appear to have formerly existed among 

 the mountains of Spain, and some neighbouring parts 

 of the Continent of Europe. 



We have chosen to extract the description which 

 the Prince of Musignano has given in his erudite 

 and highly finished Iconographia, as one of the 

 latest, and, as far as we can judge, most authentic. 

 In 1818, there were living specimens in the Parisian 



