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pressed, smooth horns, directed upwards and backwards with 

 great divergency, and with their round points again hent inwards; 

 by their short, deer-like tail, which is rather longer than that of 

 the Wild Sheep and not disked. They rut in winter, gestate 5 

 months, and breed in the summer. 



Their habits resemble those of the Nyens or Wild Sheep, but 

 the two never commingle nor approach each other, nor will the 

 male, however long and completely they are tamed, have sexual 

 commerce with domestic Sheep. Ribs 13 pair. Hodgson. 



The Nahoor is much less easily acclimatized in foreign parts 

 than the Jharal, in confinement more resigned and apathetic. 

 I have tried in vain to make the Nahoor breed with tame Sheep, 

 because he will not copulate with them. Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 

 iv. 493. 



4. AMMOTRAGTJS. 



Forehead concave. Crumen none. Horns subcylindrical, 

 turning outward backward, with the tips inward towards each 

 other. Chin not bearded. Neck maned beneath. Tail rather 

 elongate, tufted at the end. Skull with no suborbital pit nor 

 fissure. 



Pseudois, sp., Hodgson. 



Ammotragus, Blyth ; Gray, Knowsley Menag. 



Ovis y, Sundevall, Pecora, 90. 



1. AMMOTRAGUS TRAGELAPHUS. 



Ovis Tragelaphus, Desm. Mamm. 480. 1 ; Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 



258.261; Gray, List Mamm. B.M.169; List Osteol. B.M. 61. 

 Ovis ornata, Geoff. Egypt, t. ; I. Geoff. Diet. Class. H. N. xi. 



264; Lesson, Comp. Buffon, x. 312. 

 Capra Jaela, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. t. 192, not text. 

 Ammotragus Tragelaphus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 40. 

 Mouflon d'Afrique, Cuv. R. A. i. 268 ; F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. 

 Mouflon a manchettes, Explor. Sci. Alger. Mam. t. 7- 

 Bearded Sheep, Penn. Quad. i. 46. 

 Siberian Goat, Penn. Syn. Quad. i. 18 (the skin described as 



from India, nofsynon.). 

 Tragelaphus seu Hircocervus, Can Opusc. 59. 

 Aoudad, Jackson, Morocco; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 671. 

 Fichtall or Lerwea, Shaw, Trav. 243. 

 Antilope Lervia, Pallas, Spic. xii. 12; Gmelin, S. N. i. 182; 



Fischer, Syn. 480. 

 Hab. N. Africa. 



Bad state. North Africa. 

 Male, adult. North Africa. 



