

VERTEBRATA. 



THK OVIXA OR OVE.E. 



is trili*- includes the Common Sheep and the allied species. These are all marked by a flat 

 or concave forehead, triangular hoofs, horns more or less spiral and wide at the base. The horna 

 are often wanting in the female. They are divided into two genera. 



' MOTJFLON: Afusimon. — The animals of this genus are distinguished by short tail s ? 

 :ii hair, and enormous horns; they live on the mountains, and though their numbers are small, 

 they are found widely dispersed in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 



The M' 3MOH or Moiflox, M. musmon — the Capra Amnion of Linnaeus — is found in the 

 mountains of Corsica and Sardinia, where it is called Mvffoli and Mufione^ivom which Buffon 

 formed 1 1 1 * - Dame Mouflon ; it is said to be also found in the islands of Cyprus and Candia. It 

 is about the size of the common sheep, but of a stouter frame; its covering is long, rough hair, 

 beneath which there is finer hair resembling wool ; the prevailing color is a vinous red ab 

 and a dirty white 1" low ; it is subject, however, to varieties of color; the horns of the male are 

 deeply ridged and annulated. The animals of this species have a close resemblance to the com- 

 mon Bheep in their habits: they assemble and pasture together in flocks, and though naturally 

 div and wild, are easily tamed, when they readily associate and breed with the domestic flocks. S<> 

 fttrong, however, is the love of association, that if kept alone they soon pine away and die. 



The 8h \. or Ko< s, .'/. Vignei, is the wild mountain sheep of the north of India, and is also t 

 found in Thibet We are told that numbers of these are forced in winter, by the snows, from 

 the mountain heights down to the borders of the Indus. 



The .\kmkm\n Siii.kp, M. Or'n nlitlis 1 is a native of Armenia. 



The Nebvatb, or Ska of Xahoor — the Pseudois nahura of Hodgson — is a native of Nepaul. 



