258 Mr. Blyth on the Genus Ovis. 



inches inside ; they diverge to 23 inches apart, measuring outside, at 

 a distance of G inches from the tips, which latter return to 15 inches 

 asunder; their span from base to tip inside is 13 inches; at base 

 they are closely approximated, but not quite in contact. General 

 form subquadrangular for nearly a foot, then gradually more com- 

 pressed to the end, and having a very deep longitudinal furrow for 

 the greater portion of their length outside, above which the horn 

 bulges : there is a mark of annual growth at 1^ inch from the base, 

 another 1 ^ inch further, and a third after an interval of 3 inches ; 

 but the rest are too indistinct to be made out with certainty among 

 the wrinkles of the horn. A large pair of female horns were 16 

 inches long ; 7^ round at base ; their widest portion apart, near the 

 tips, 19 inches ; and the tips 17^ inches : their surface is marked with 

 broad transverse indentations, which in the males ordinarily become 

 more or less effaced with age. The female of this species is a third 

 smaller than the other sex ; and a lamb in the collection of this So- 

 ciety is extremely kid-like, with the spinal mane upon the neck and 

 shoulders very conspicuous, but no lengthened hair on the fore-neck 

 and limbs : in the half-grown male, the latter especially is still not 

 much developed. 



This species is well known as the Aoudad of the Moors, and the 

 Kebsh of the Egyptians ; it is also, according to Riippell, the Tedal of 

 the inhabitants of Nubia, which is doubtless the same as Teytal, applied 

 by Burckhardt to the wild Goat of that region, in addition to the word 

 Beden, which (in common with Riippell and others) he also assigns to 

 the latter. Sir Gardner Wilkinson, however, confirms Burckhardt, 

 by informing us that the Goat referred to is called in Arabic Beddan, 

 or Taytal, the former appellation referring to the male only. This 

 author adds, that the present species " is found in the eastern desert, 

 principally in the ranges of primitive mountains, which, commencing 

 about lat. 28° 40', extend thence into Ethiopia and Abyssinia." 

 According to M. Riippell, "it is found in all North Africa above 18° 

 in small families, and always upon the rocky hills ;" frequenting the 

 steepest and most inaccessible crags amid the woods and forests 

 of the Atlas, and descending only to drink. It is a wonderfully agile 

 leaper, even more so than the wild Sheep and Goats generally, and 

 is remarkable for always browsing, in preference to grazing. The 

 Ovis ornata, figured by M. Geoffroy in the great French work on 

 Egypt, would appear to be merely a small-sized individual*. 



* The "Wild Sheep" of Tenasserim, mentioned by Captain Low (in Journ. 

 Roy. As. Soc. for 1830, p. 50) as abundant in that region, is most probably 

 the Kemas Jiylocrius of Mr. Ogilby, or Warry-a-too of the Chatgaon hills, 

 which is also more or less common throughout the Malabar, Coromandel and 

 Vindhayan ranges of Peninsular India, where it is known as the " Jungle 

 Sheep" to British sportsmen, having precisely the bleat of this genus. Vide 

 Bevan's ' Thirty Years in India,' ii. 2G7. This author remarks its being 

 very common in Wynaud. A female represented (though very indiffei'- 

 ently) in one of Gen. Haidwicke's unpublished drawings in the British Mu- 

 seum, from a specimen killed in Chatgaon, is clearly identical in species 

 with the male specimen in the Zoological Society's Museum, which was 

 received from the Neelghierries. Mr. Ogilby has rightly classed this ani- 



