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98. -4. 4. 13. Krugersdorp, West Transvaal (//. P. 

 Thomasset). 



46. 6. 2. 23. Mohopaui Berg, Bechuanaland. 

 97. 1. 4. 1-4. Matabeleland {F. C. Selous). 



99. 2. 23. 1. Ngamiland {Capt. Lugard). 

 93. 11. 21. 1. De Kaap {Dr. P. Kendall). 



6. 4. 3. 31-36. Woodbush, N.W. Transvaal {Rndd 

 Collection). 



5. 12. 9. 19-20. Klein Letaba, N. Transvaal [liudd 

 Collectioji). 



6. 8. 2. 49. Legogot, N.E. Transvaal {Rudd Collection). 



6.4. 7.1. Sabi River, N.E. Transvaal (/. S. Ilamilton). 



7.3. 25. 4. Salisbury, Mashonaland {Guy Marshall). 



97. 1. 4, 5. Salisbury, j\Iaslionaland {F. C. Selous). 



99. 8. 3. 4. Mashonaland {Boyd Alexander). 



7. 1. 11. 21. N. Rhodesia {S. A. Neave). 



1. 6. 2(5. 2. Pasa {Col. Manning). 



97. 10. 1. 66. L. Nyasa {Sir U. Johnston). 



XXII. — The Name of the Armenian Wild Sheep. 

 By R. Lydekkeh. 



Considerable diversity of usage prevails among naturalists 

 with regard to the scientific name of the Armenian wild sheep, 

 some writers adopting Ovis Gmelini, Blytli (18-iO), while 

 otiiers prefer Ovis orientalis. When the latter name is used 

 the authority is generally given as G. F. Gmelin, ' Reise/ 

 vol. iii. p. 486 (1784) ; but the animal is there referred to 

 merely as " das orientalische Schafe," which is, of course, 

 not a technical name. On the other hand, in Brandt and 

 Ratzeburg's ' Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der 

 Thiere, etc.,' Berlin, 1829, p. 54, pi. ix. fig. 1, we find the 

 wild sheep of the " Ceraunian Mountains " of Persia described 

 and figured as Ovis 7nusimon, var. orientalis; and this name, 

 modified to 0. orientalis, consequently stands. It may be 

 added that the work in question is really composed of extracts 

 from ' ]\ledizinische Zoologie,' a serial of which the first 

 volume, containing the name in question, appears to have 

 been published in 1827. 



As to the " Ceraunian Mountains " of Persia, I take it 

 that this must be an application of the name in a sense 

 analogous to that in which the term " Alps " is often used, 

 seeine; that the Ceraunian or Acroceraunian Mountains are 



