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dicate particular species. Thus, we have the' Mou- 

 flon of Corsica, and the Mouflon of America, &c. 

 The species, of which a figure is annexed, is the 

 Ruffled Mouflon : and the following exact descrip- 

 tion of it has been communicated to us by our 

 friend M. J. G. St Hilaire, who drew it up from an 

 individual brought from Egypt by his father, and 

 preserved in the collection of the Museum of Natural 

 History in Paris. 



" The Ruffled Mouflon fOvis ornata) is uni- 

 formly of a fine reddish-yellow, thus approaching in 

 its general colour to our own species. The shade, 

 however, is lighter than in the European animal, be- 

 cause the yellow hairs are not intermingled with black 

 ones, but, on the contrary, they are even white at the 

 point, a circumstance which gives the hair a dotted 

 appearance when viewed near at hand. The colour 

 just mentioned is that of the body, head, and greater 

 part of the legs ; but the anterior part of the shanks 

 and the dorsal line are of a brownish tint, and on 

 the medial line, between the two legs, a black longi- 

 tudinal stripe is observable. Lastly, the under side 

 of the body, as well as the internal and inferior re- 

 gions of the legs, are of a white colour, as in our 

 own species ; always, however, with this difference, 

 that the white portion of the body is of much less 

 extent than in the latter. But the most singular 

 character which this species presents, and which has 

 procured it the Ffench name of Mouflon a man- 

 chettes, is the long hairs which garnish the anterior 



