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D. Ammotrag-us lervia blainei. 



Ovis lervia blainei, Bothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. xx, pt. 2, 1913. 



Typical locality border of Dongola and Kordofan. 



Horns strongly depressed, but less bent backwards than 

 in other races ; general colour brownish grey, less rufous 

 than in other races ; sides of head, face, and mask much 

 darker owing to admixture of blackish hairs ; beard on sides 

 of lower jaw nearly black ; no subauricular light spot. 



Type in collection of G. Elaine, Esq. 



95. 6. 8. 1. Skull, with horns. Nile Valley, above Wadi 

 Haifa ; collected by Capt. Dunning. Purchased, 1895. 



III. Genus PSEUDOIS. 



Pseudois, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, p. 343, 1846 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 177, 1852 ; Lydekker, Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlix, p. 131, 1880, The Sheep and Its 

 Cousins, p. 305, 1912; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1898, p. 158 ; PococTc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 863. 



Horns "perverted" homonyrnous, curving backwards 

 over neck, and, except for lines of growth, smooth, those of 

 females small and spear-like. Two teats ; tail rather longer 

 than in Ovis with long hairs. Face-glands absent, but their 

 position marked by a small patch of bare skin ; foot-glands 

 absent, or represented by small rudiments. No beard ; 

 males not malodorous. Skull without lachrymal pits. 

 Vertebrse : c. 7, D. 13, L. 6, s. 4, ca. 10. 



The genus is intimately connected with the goats by 

 means of Capra cylindricornis. 



Restricted to the highlands of Central Asia. 



PSEUDOIS NAHOOR. 



Ovis nayaur, Hodgson, Asiat. Research, vol. xviii, pt. 2, p. 135, 1833, 

 in part; Matschie, SB. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1896, p. 97, 1897, 

 p. 72 ; name misprinted, subsequently corrected by author. 



Ovis nahoor, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 107, Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal, vol. x, pp. 231, 293, 1840, xi, p. 283, 1842, Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 129 ; Kinloch, Large Game Shooting, 

 pt. 1, p. 25, 1866; Milne-Edwards, Recli. Mamm. p. 357, 

 pis. Ixviii and Ixix, 1868-74 ; Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, 



