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SYNOPSIS OF GENERA OF OVE^E. 



1. Ovis. Crumen distinct. Tail elongated. Skin covered with 



wool or adpressed hair. 



2. CAPROVIS. Crumen distinct. Tail very short. Skin covered 



with thick hair, covering the wool. 



3. PSEUDOIS. Crumen none. Tail rather elongated. Forehead 



convex. Skin covered with thick hair. 



4. AMMOTRAGUS. Crumeu none. Tail rather elongated. Fore- 



head concave. Skin covered with short hair, and elongated 

 tuft of hair. 



a. Crumen distinct. Infraorbital pit distinct. 



1. Ovis. 



Forehead convex. Horns more or less spiral, bent inwards at 

 the tips, varying greatly in size and form. Crumen distinct. 

 Tail more or less elongated. Body covered with wool or close- 

 pressed hair. Skull with a more or less deep suborbital pit, but 

 no fissure. 



Ovis, sp., Linn. 

 Capra, sp., Elumenb. ; Fischer. 

 Musmon, Schrank, Fauna Boica. 

 Aries, Rqfin. Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 



1. Ovis (ARIES) ARIES. The SHEEP. 



JEgoceros Aries, Pallas ; Wagner. 



Ovis Aries, Linn. S. N. i. 97; Gmelin, S. N. i. 197; Erxl. 242; 



Desm. Mam. 488 ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 169 ; List, Osteol. 



B. M. 61 ; List Hodgson Mam. fy Birds B. M. ; Sundevall, 



Pecora, 89. 



Ovis domestica, Brisson, Reg. Anim. 74. 

 Capra Ovis, Elumenb. Naturg. x. 116. 

 Capra Aries, Fischer, Syn. 489. 649. 

 Musmon Aries, Schrank, Faun. Boic. i. 46. 

 Pecus, Aries, Ovis, Plin. H. N, viii. 47, 48. 

 Ovis Aries, &c., Gesner, Quad. 872. f. 8/3, 925, 926; Jonst. 



Quad. 54. t. 22; Linn. Am&n. Acad. iv. 169. 

 Sheep, Penn. B. Z. 10; Youatt, Sheep, their breeds, fyc.; Low, 



Dom. Anim. Brit. Islands. 

 Ram, Penn. Syn. 10. 

 Belier et Brebis, Buffon, H. N. v. 1 . 1. 1, 2 ; Schdf. Meyer Thiere, 



i. t. 51 ; Walther, Wetterau Ann. i. 283. 

 Hab. Domesticated, 



