CAPRINE 75 



I. OV1S AEIES. 



Ovie aries, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 70, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 97, 1766; Lydekker, The Sheep and Its Cousins, pp. 1, 47, 

 1912. 



The type of the genus, and not definitely known in a 

 wild state, although it is most probable that the mouflon 

 (0. musimon) is one of the ancestral forms. If this were 

 proved to be the case, that animal should be known as Ovis 

 aries musimon. 



II. OVIS MUSIMOK 



Ovis musimon, Schreber (ex Pallas), Sdugthiere, vol. v, pi. cclviii* 

 1782 ; Wagner, Suppl. to do. vol. iv, p. 242, 1844 ; Gray, Knowsley 

 Menagerie, p. 36, 1850; Blasius, Sdugeth. Deutschlands, p. 471, 

 1857; Cornalia, Fauna Ital. Mamm. p. 56. 1870; Severtzow, 

 Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873 ; Floiver 

 and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 243, 1884 ; 

 Floiver and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 356, 1891 ; Brehm, 

 Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugeth. vol. in, p. 220, 1891 ; Lydekker, Wild 

 Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 154, 1898, Great and Small Game of 

 Europe, etc. p. 132, 1901, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 46, 1912 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 414, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 857 ; Tesdorpf, Einbiirgerung des Muffelwildes 

 (Mouflons) auf dem europdischen Festlande, Neudamm, 1910, 

 p. 9 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 242, 1910 ; Nasonov, 

 Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, p. 1292; Miller, Cat. Mamm. 

 W. Europe Brit. Mus. p. 987, 1912; Satunin, Mitt. Kaukas. 

 Mus. vol. vii, p. 78, 1912. 



^Egoceros musimon, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso.-Asiat. vol. i, p. 230, 1811. 



Ovis musmon, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 322, 

 v, p. 360, 1827; Jardine, Nat. Libr.-Mamm. vol. iv, p. 132, 

 1836; Bonaparte, Iconogr. Fauna Ital.-Indice distrib. 1841. 



Capra musmon, Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 488, 1829. 



Ovis musimon var. occidentalis, Brandt and Ratzeburg, Med. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 55, 1829. 



Caprovis musimon, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, 

 p. 702, 1847 ; Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 173, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 132, 1873. 



Musimon musmon, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 191, 1855 ; 

 Graells, Mem. Ac. Madrid, vol. xvii, p. 369, 1897. 



Musimon musimon, Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, 

 art. 2, p. 85, 1873. 



(?) Ovis matschiei, Duerst, in Wilckens' Grundziige Naturgesch. 

 Haustiere, ed. 2, pp. 177 and 180, Leipsic, 1905. 



MOUFLON. 



