1880.] THE MAMMALS OF ASIA MINOR. 55 



inches. 



Length of head 12*50 



,, ear . . 6*50 



„ of antlers along curve 18'50 



Span of antlers 16"00 



The general colour of this specimen was a dark greyish brown 

 above with a darker line running along the back ; the legs were 

 fawn-coloured, and the belly pure white. 



Both in Rhodes and on the mainland the wild Fallow Deer show but 

 faint traces of the white spots which are so characteristic of the park 

 breed. In the former locality the form of the antlers is very constant ; 

 but a series collected in the Giaour Dagh are of very irregular shapes, 

 extra points being commonly thrown out on the beam, and the pal- 

 mation being very much less marked than in the normal type. 



26. *Capreolus capr^a, Gray. Karadja. D. & A., no. 22. 

 Appears to be very rare in the south, though occurring in the 



Giaour Dagh and in the neighbouring portions of the Taurus range. 



27. *Gazella DORCAS (Linn.) Jairan. D & A., no. 23. 

 Common all along the valley of the Pyramus, on the Plain of Ba- 



zardjik, the stony oak-wooded uplands on the right bank of the 

 Euphrates, and in many other localities. Another Gazelle, which was 

 reported to Danford as being found on the banks of the latter river, 

 will probably prove to be G. subgutturosa. 



28. *Capra ^gagrus, Gmel. Kayeeh. D. & A., no. 24. 



29. *OviSGMELiNi, Blyth. Kotch, Yaban-lcoyun. D. &A., no. 25, 

 Dr. Alexander Strauch, Director of the Zoological Museum of the 



Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, visited London in 1878, prin- 

 cipally to examine the specimens of the genus Ovis in the British 

 Museum, a group which he has made a special object of study. He 

 was much struck with the form of the horns of a Cilician Wild 

 Sheep's skeleton, obtained by Danford on his first expedition, and 

 identified by us as 0. gmelini. These horns Dr. Strauch considered 

 to be so peculiar as to indicate specific distinction from both the 

 Armenian 0. gmelini and the Cyprian 0. ophion ; and, at his sugges- 

 tion, we have been led to reconsider the question of its identity. 



On comparing the horns of the skeleton in question, that of an 

 adolescent male (figs. 3, 6), with those of the types of Blyth's 0. gmelini, 

 also in the national collection (figs. 1, 4), the differences are, indeed, 

 so striking that it is difficult to believe that the animals can belong 

 to the same species. In the Cilician Sheep the terminal portion of 

 the horns are bent boldly upwards, so that their curves strongly re- 

 semble those of 0. ophion. Their sculpture is large but ill-defined, 

 the fronto-nuchal and fronto-orbital edges ' are well marked but 

 rounded ; and both the orbital and nuchal surfaces are flat at the 

 base and then slightly concave. 



' We employ these terms as defined hy Sir A'^ictor and Mr. Basil Brooke, 

 P.Z.S. 1875, p. .511. 



