174 MAMMALIA. 



Ovis Cyprius, Blasius, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1841, 568, from Brandt. 



Tragelaphus, Bellon. 



Hab. Cyprus, Mus. Berlin ; Candia, Bellon ; Corsica. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Moufflon, Daub. Buff. H. N. xi. t. 30. 



B. Argali. Tail very short. Horns long, heavy, with the tips 

 bent inwards, and with the two edges equally prominent. 

 Throat and side without any dark streak. The suborbital 

 pit in the skull is moderately broad and concave. " Tear- 

 bag and inter digital pores distinct." Hodgson, J. A, Soc. 

 Calcutta, 1846, 308. 



4. CAPROVIS (ARGALI) ARGALI. The ARGALI. 



^Egoceros Argali, Pallas, Zool Ross. Asiat. i. 231. t. 20, 21 ; 



Tilesius, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 279. t. 23, head; Bo- 



janus, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 291. t. 24, 25, skull. 

 Ovis fera Sibirica, Argali dicta, Pallas, Spic. xi. 3. t. 1, 2. 

 Ovis Argali, Bodd. 



Capra Ammon, part., Linn. S. N. i. 97. 

 Capra Ammon, Fischer, Syn. 487; Cuvier, R. A. 

 Ovis Ammon, part., Erxleb. Syst. 250; Schreb. Saugth. t. 288. 

 Acriodorcas pygargus seu Ovicapra rupestris, S. Gmelin, 337. 



n. 14, cited by Pallas-, Steller, Besch. Kamtsch. 127. 

 Rupicapra cornubus arietinis, J. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comm. Petrop. 



iv. 388. 53. t. 8 b. f. 2, 3. 



Siberian Goat (part.), Penn. Syn. i. 18 (Synonyma). 

 Wild Sheep (Siberian), Penn. Quad. i. 38; Arctic Zool. i. 12. 

 Argali, Shaw, Zool. ii. t. 101. 

 Argali de Siberie, Cuvier, Reg. Anim. i. 267. 

 Hab. Siberia. 



Male and female. Siberia. 



OSTEOLOGY. Tilesius, I. c. xii. t. 23 ; Bojanus, I. c. xii. t. 24, 25. 



Var. 1. Musimon, Steller, Kamtsch. 127. 



Ovis Nivicola, Eschsch. Zool. Atlas, t. ; Lesson, Comp. Buffon, 



x. 313. 



Argali seu Belier sauvage, Wangl. Nord Siberie, ii. 158, 168. 

 Hab. Kamtschatka. 



Var. 2. Ovis Argali, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. i. 347. 



Ovis Ammon var., Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, 105; 1834, 



99; Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xi. 283; Institute, n. 101, 102; 



Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. x. 863; Lesson, Compl. Buffon, x. 313. 

 Ovis Bambhera, Hodgson, Cat. MSS. ; Institute, n. 101, 102. 



