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breast, black, mottled with grey, separated from the body and extre- 

 mities, which are pure white, by a regularly-defined limit ; head rather 

 darker, with a lateral white streak from the region of the eyes to the 

 nose. Horns reflected back to the shoulders in an arch, slightly 

 diverging about the middle, and inclining inwards at the tips ; the 

 lower edge semi- cylindrical and rounded, the upper compressed, 

 divided by a longitudinal line, and transversely grooved, each branch 

 having a notch near the end, from which it is attenuated to the point. 

 Hair along the body and rump long, straight, and pendulous, soft to 

 the touch, but without wool ; near the shoulders the hair is short. 

 Ears long, erect, sharp. Beard moderate. Length, four feet five inches. 

 Height, two feet six inches. 



The SHEEP, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 36. 

 Genus Ovis, Linn. 



CAPRA, Linn, et al. 

 ^EGOCEROS, Pallas. 



251. OVIS ARIES, Linn. 



a. Variety of the Domestic Sheep of Nepal. 



A. A Skull. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



b. Variety of the Domestic Sheep of Tibet. 



A. A specimen from Capt. R. Strachey's Collection in 

 Ladakh. 



c. Variety of the Domestic Sheep of Tibet. 



A. A specimen from Capt. R. Strachey 's Collection in 

 Ladakh. 



252. OVIS VIGNEI, Blyth, Proceed. Zool Soc. 1840, p. 70 ; 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 251, with figure of the 

 Horns, pi. V. 



Ovis cycloceros, Hutton, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. II. p. 514, 

 with an outline sketch, pi. XIX. Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XV. p. 152. 



The SHA, of Tibet and Ladak, Strachey, Blyth. 



KoH-i-DooMBA, of the Afghans, Hutton. 



HAB. Tibet, Ladakh, Strachey. Afghanistan, Griffith, Hutton. 



A. A specimen, adult, from Capt. Strachey's Collection. 



B. Young, from Griffith's Collection. 



C. Horns on Skull, from Griffith's Collection in Afghan- 



istan. 



