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GREAT GAME OF THE WORLD. 



MOUFFLON (Ovis musimon).* 

 [BLYTH, P.Z.S. 1840, p. 72.] 



IT is unnecessary to give a detailed description of this beautiful 

 little species, though I may mention that the fine living male in 

 the gardens measures 39 in. from nose to tail, the tail 5 in. ; 

 from nose to base of horn 7 in. ; ears 4 in. ; neck, from posterior 

 base of horn to the abrupt angle of its insertion, 8 in., and thence 

 to base of tail 21 in. ; height at the shoulder 2^ ft. 



The female has seldom any horns, which, when they exist, are 

 ordinarily about 2 in. long. 



Habitat Sardinia and Corsica. 



The Moufflon sheep of Corsica and Sardinia, but not, there is reason to suspect, of the Levantine Countries. 



