THE MrSMON OF CORSICA. 335 



in some of the islands of the Archipelago, and in the 

 isle of Cyprus. The flocks consist sometimes of 

 a hundred and more, placed under the guidance of 

 some old and courageous male. In a domestic state, 

 the young males and females are docile and gentle ; 

 hut the old males hecome subject to ill-natured fits, 

 and sometimes assail children, women, and even 

 men, attempting to bear them down by butting. 



Mr Hodgson has lately noticed an animal from 

 the Nepalese territory, under the title of Ovis Na- 

 hoor, but which he at the same time acknowledges to 

 be very closely allied to the Musmon, and most pro- 

 bably to be only a variety of it. The adult is about 

 forty-eight inches in length, and thirty-two high ; 

 the head coarse and expressionless, and clad with 

 close short hair ; the chaffron considerably arched. 

 The fur is of two sorts : the outer hair of a harsh, 

 brittle, quill-like character, serpentined internally 

 with salient bows of hair fitting into the resilient 

 bends of one another ; externally straight, porrect 

 over the skin, and being abundant, of medial uni- 

 form length all over the body: the inner coat soft 

 and woolly, rather spare. Horns twenty-two inches 

 along the curve : they diverge greatly, but can scarce- 

 ly be said to be spirally turned ; they are uncom- 

 pressed, triangular, broadly con vexed to the front, 

 and cultrated to the back ; they are transversely 



