CAPRINE 123 



Ovis. Two teats ; tail relatively long, reaching nearly to 

 hocks, with long hairs on terminal half. No face-glands or 

 foot-glands. No beard ; males not malodorous. Skull 

 without lachrymal pits. Vertebrae: c. 7, D. 13, L. 6, s. 4, 

 ca. 14. 



Restricted to North Africa. 



AMMOTEAGUS LERVIA. 



Antilope lervia, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, p. 12, 1777. 



Ovis tragelaphus, Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. i, p. 268, 1817 ; Des- 



marest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 486, 1822 ; H. Smith, Griffith's 



Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 319, v, p. 359, 1827 ; Gray, List 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 169, 1843 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 



Mus. R. Coll Surg. pt. ii, p. 248, 1884 ; Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. 



Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, p. 288, 1885 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 



Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 141, 1891 ; Flower and LydeTcJcer, Study of 



Mammals, p. 354, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 257, 



1896. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) tragelaphus, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, pp. 13 



and 76. 

 Ammotragus tragelaphus, Gray, Knoivsley Menagerie, vol. ii, p. 40, 



1850, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 179, 1852, Cat. Ruminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 134, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 134, 



1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 252, 1862. 

 Musimon tragelaphus, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. p. 192, 1853. 

 .<Egoceros tragelaphus, Heuglin, Petermann's Mitt. 1861, p. 16. 

 Aries tragelaphus, Lataste, Explor. Scient. Tunisie, Mamm. p. 35, 



1887. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) lervia, Lydckker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 226, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 86, 1908. 

 Ovis lerviaj, Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm. p. 334, 



1902 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 389, 1910 ; Rothschild, 



Novit. Zool. vol. xx, pt. 2, 1913. 

 Ammotragus lervia, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, p. 13; 



Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 862 ; LydekJcer, The Sheep and 



Its Cousins, p. 302, 1912. 



ARUI: BARBARY SHEEP. 



Typical locality Mauretania. 



Size comparatively large ; shoulder-height about 39 inches. 

 Head relatively long and narrow, with rather large ears ; a 

 short upright mane from neck to middle of back ; long hair 

 developed on throat, sides of body and limbs. Tips of 

 horns directed inwards, or inwards and downwards. General 

 colour of head, upper-parts, and outer side of limbs uniform 

 rufous or greyish brown, rather darker on mane; inside of 

 ears, chin, middle line of under-parts, and inner surface of 



