MAMMALIA. 171 



30. Many-horned Sheep, Penn. Syn. t. 3. f. 2, 3 ; Bewick, Hist. 



Quad. 72. fig. 

 Ovis polyceratus, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 174 ; Schreb. Saugth. 



t. 289. 



O. sexcornis et O. tricornis, Aldrov Eisulc. 397. fig. 

 Brebis a plusieurs comes, Buff on, H. N. xi. 354. 

 Belier et Brebis d'Island, Buffan, H. N. xi. t. 31, 32. 

 Four-horned Ram, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 680. 

 Dumba Sheep, Gray, List Hodgson Mam. fy Birds B. M. 

 Hob. India; Nepal. 



31. The Puchia or Hindostan Dumba. 



Ovis puchia or O. pucchia, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. S. B. xvi. 



1016. t. 

 Cabul Dumba, Hodgson, I. c. ii. 390, iv. 330. 



Skull of a " Cabul Dumba" Sheep. 



Drawing of " Indian Doomba Sheep." Hodgson, Icon. ined. 

 B. M. t. 184. f. 1, copied t. 185. f. 1. 



Drawing of " Cabool Doomba Sheep." Hodgson, Icon. ined. 

 B. M. t. 184. f. 2, copied t. 185. f. 2. 



Four-horned Sheep, with long mane on neck below. Drawing 

 in India ink, with a pencil sketch on the back. Bank. Icon. 

 Mam. t. 



Drawing in colours, by S. Parkinson, after nature. Bank. 

 Icon. Mam. t., copied Pennant, Quad. i. t. 3. f. 2. 



Drawing in colours, by F. Masson^ in lat. 50, long. 115. 

 Bank. Icon. Mam. t. 



Hob. India. 



32. The Short-tailed Sheep. 



Ovis brachyura borealis, Pallas, Spic. Zool. xi. 61 ; Zool. 



Ross. Asiat. i. 233. 

 Hob. Northern Russia. 



33. Sheep of Tartary, Moorcroft; Lesson, Compl. Buffon, x. 313. 

 Hab. Tartary. 



" Eat bones like a dog." 



2. CAPROVIS. MOUFFLONS or WILD SHEEP. 



Horns (in male only) bent in a half circle over the back, heavy, 

 wrinkled, angular and compressed. Muifle none. Nose ovine. 

 Eye-pits small, indistinct. Tail short, deer-like, without any 

 tail-disc. Hair thick, entirely concealing the woolly under-coat. 

 Beard none. Caprine odour none. Skull with small deep pit 

 in front of orbit. 



Caprovis, Hodgson, Var. Gen. Ruminants, 1847, 18. 

 Ovis Musimon, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 



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