AKf. U.I. 



liuiVon, is of a darker colour than the 



kind. 



I'roin tlu- alx. riptinn if \vill sutVicicntly 



u that the Wild Slurp is hv no means that 



iinjly helpless animal which we view in a 



lincmcnt and artificial life ; hut in the 



hi-!, ive and \ JL .1 



d to live ahont ton; 



It i .ikahle that I.iniuens, in tlie twelfth 



edition or' tin S\steina Natnr.i', places thU niiininl 

 in tl; ;>/v/ instead of Ov/.v ; appe; 



tlicr to consitk-r it .is the parent nfthr tlian 



the Sheep. Intact, tin enera a; 



allied, that the line of separation is not MTV easily 

 iliscoverahlc. The present animal, ho \vhe- 



ther we eons'ukr ii or nianne: s ra. 



to he the parent or btoek of the Sheep than 

 the Goat rac-e. 



VAII. ? 



Bearded Sheep. Pennant Quadr. I. p. 51. pi. 9. 

 Tragclaphus seu Hirco-Cervus. Cirii. optuc. 59. 

 Siberian Goat. Pennant Syno^i. Quadr. p. 18. 



THIS animal seems rather a variety of the Ar- 



sjali than truly distinct. Its dorription anil cha- 



ifl thus given ly Mr. Pennant, \\ho in his 



p>is of (^uadrupt d to the genus 



C'apra. 



*' Sheep with the hair on the lower part of the 

 cheeks and upper jaws extremely long, forming a 



