134 THE MCSMON OF CORSICA. 



The general tint of the body is a yellow, tending 

 to chestnut or ash colour, deepest on the neck, and 

 clear on several parts of the back and lumbar re- 

 gions. The head is ash- grey : the muzzle more or 

 less approaching to pure white, which colour occu- 

 pies also the region of the eyes, the interior of the 

 ears, the belly and inside of the thighs, the edges of 

 the tail, and the extremity of the legs. A band of 

 ill-defined brown stretches along the back to the up- 

 per part of the tail. The horns are brown, tending 

 to ochraceous. All the fleece owes its tints to the 

 long hair, which exceeds the woolly part in length. 

 In the parts more intensely coloured, the hair is of a 

 deep yellow, black, or black and yellow, in different 

 proportions, according to the different parts they 

 clothe. The curled hair which constitutes the wool 

 properly so called, is of an ash colour or rusty white. 



In winter, all the hair is thicker, more inclining to 

 chestnut on the coloured parts. The line along the 

 back is blackish, especially upon the shoulders. In 

 some specimens, the tints, notwithstanding the sea- 

 sons, are all pale or whitish. 



The female is constantly distinguished from the 

 male by the want of horns ; but we have seen indi- 

 viduals furnished with them, though only one or two 

 inches long. The young are generally of a paler 

 yellow. 



It inhabits the highest peaks and desert places of 

 the mountains in the various provinces of southern 

 Spain, in Sardinia and Corsica, European Turkey, 



