CAPRINE 77 



red with a brown stripe on back, white spots on heads and 

 flanks ; horns light-coloured, curved in a single plane. 

 0. matschui : more brownish grey in general colour, face 

 ash-grey rarely marked with white ; horns dark brown, 

 curved in a spiral with tips directly outwards. 



53. 8. 29. 49. Skin, mounted. Sardinia (?). 



Presented by the Zoological Society, 1853. 



95. 4. 4. 1. Skin, mounted. Genargentu Eange, Central 

 Sardinia. Presented ly Ford G. Barclay, Esq., 1895. 



5. 3. 6. 3. Skin, mounted. Sardinia. 



Presented ly J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1905. 



61. 3. 24. 2. Skin, female. (?) Bred in London. 



Presented by the Zoological Society, 1861. 



62. 12. 22. 2. Skin, female. (?) Bred in London. 



Same donor, 1862. 

 60. 4. 23. 1. Skeleton. (?) Bred in London. 



Same donor, 1860. 



55. 12. 26. 162. Skull, with horns. Sardinia; collected 



by W. Ewer, Esq. Same donor, 1855. 



95. 4. 16. 6, a. Skull, with horns. Genargentu Eange, 



Sardinia. Presented by E. N. Buxton, Esq., 1895. 



95. 4. 16. 6-7. Two skins, one associated with the 



preceding specimen. Genargentu Eange. Same history. 



9. 1. 11. 1. Erontlet and horns. Corsica; collected by 



Dr. C. I. Eorsyth Major. The curvature of the horns is 



normal, without terminal " perversion." Purchased, 1908. 



5. 3. 6. 2. Skin, young. Sardinia. 



Presented by A. Bayley- Worthington, Esq., 1905. 



III. OVIS OEIENTALIS. 



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

 vol. i, p. 54, 1829. 



Ovis gmelini, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 69 ; Brooke, ibid. 1875, 

 p. 526 ; Blanford, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, p. 88, 1876 ; Danford 

 and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 276, 1880, p. 55 ; W. L. 

 Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 139, 1891 ; Ward, 

 Eecords of Big Game, p. 258, 1896 ; Satunin, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 

 vol. ix, p. 312, 1896; Matschie, Sitzler. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1896, p. 97; Badde, Museum Caucasicum, vol. i, p. Ill, 1899; 

 Dinnik, Zap. Kavk. otd. Euss. Geogr. Ob&. vol. xxvii, pt. 1, 

 p. 158, 1910. 



