160 MAMMALIA. 



Doubtful species. 



1. Capra? 



Antilope torticornis, Herm. Obs. Zool. i. 87. 

 A. (Tragelaphus) torticornis, Fischer, Syn. 4/3. 



2. Antilope? grandicornis, Herm. Obs. Zool. 87; Fischer, Syn. 



466. 633. 

 A. ^Egocerus grandicornis, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 812. 



Subtribe V. Ovece. Forehead flat or concave. The horns are 

 more or less spiral, wider than deep at the base, and slightly aii- 

 nulated in front. The females are often hornless. The skull has 

 a more or less deep rounded suborbital pit, without any fissure ; 

 the masseteric ridge ascending high before the orbit ; the audi- 

 tory bulla small; the basioccipital flat, more or less expanded 

 anteriorly by the extension of the anterior pair of tubercles, the 

 posterior ones small; the cutting-teeth are nearly equal- sized 

 and shelving ; and there are no supplemental lobes to the grind- 

 ers. The hoofs are triangular, and being shallow behind, they 

 have distinct interdigital fossae. Males emitting no stench. 



Ovis, Linn. S. N. ; Desm. 1804. 



Aries, Brisson, R. Anim. i. 48, 1/62. 



Capra, sp., Illiger, 107, 1811. 



Ovis, Raii Syn. Quad. 73; Gray, Ann. fyMag. N. H. 1846, 230. 



Ovis, part., Wagler, N. Syst. Amph. 32, 1830. 



Ovejfi, Gray, Ann. $ Mag. N. H. 1846, 230. 



Ovidze, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 72, 1828. 



Capridse, part., Oailby, P. Z. S. 1836, 137. 



Ovesidese, part., Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 182. 



Sheep, Penn. Hist. Quad. i. 32. 



Ovis v. Ammon, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 76. 



Aries, Rafinesque, Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 



In fighting they run a- tilt, adding hither the force of impulse 

 to that of weight; incurious and timid; rarely bark trees. 



Pallas, and more lately Gene, Hodgson, Blasius, and Blyth, 

 have pointed out the characters that define the limits of this genus, 

 which Desmarest, Fischer, and several other authors are inclined 

 to place with the Goat. 



The females are sometimes hornless. Gmelin noticed this with 

 respect to O. Ammon, Blyth. 0. Nahor and the female Corsi- 

 can O. Musimon are generally hornless. 



Blasius has remarked that the right horn of 0. Argali, 0. mon- 

 tana, O. Nahor, O. Aries, O. Musimon and 0. Vignei, winds to 

 the left, but in the two latter species only slightly, while in O. 

 Tragelaphus, 0. orientalis, O. Burhel and 0. Cyprius, the right 

 horn winds to the right. 



