1884.] ON THE WILD SHKKP OF CYPRUS. 593 



movement in the upper jaw would be difficult or impossible, and 

 the fish would die of starvation, and it seems to me that such is due 

 to age as well as dependent on sex. 



On August 26th went for a couple of hours fishing on Loch 

 Goldenhorf, which had been stocked with Trout from Howietoun, and 

 the fish are in their third year, and run up to one pound in weight. 

 I examined the stomachs of two from among twenty-five we 

 captured, both by their colouring showing unmistakable affinities 

 to the Lochleven breed. In the first fish, of about f lb. weight, 

 the stomach was thickened and resembled that of a gillaroo, but it 

 had no entire shells inside it. The second, which was of similar 

 size, on the contrary, had some entire shells of Limncea pyrifera, not 

 only in its stomach but also in the course of its intestines. It 

 would thus appear that both forms had partaken of testaceous 

 mollusks, but the one had the muscular coat of its stomach so 

 developed as to be able to grind up the shells and so prevent 

 their passing the pylorus, whereas in the other the shells were 

 likewise swallowed but passed downwards along the intestinal canal, 

 as may be seen in the marine Blennies and many other fishes. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate LVI. 



Male hybrid between Salmo levenensh, 5 , and S. fontiiialis, <3 . 



Fig. 1. Side view. | Fig. 2. Dorsal aspect. 



Plate LVII. 



Male hybrid between Salmo fontinalis, 5, and 8. al;pinus, ij". 



Fig. 1. Side view. | Fig. 2. Dorsal aspect. 



7. On the Wild Sheep of Cyprus. 

 By Lt.-Col. J. BiDDULPH, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived December 2, 1884.] 



(Plate LVIII.) 



1 have brought here for inspection this evening a stuffed specimen 

 of the Cyprian Wild Sheep, which has been sent to me by Sir Robert 

 Biddulph, the High Commissioner of Cyprus, for presentation to the 

 British Museum, where this species is at present not represented. 

 The specimen is a male, and, judging by the marks which are 

 generally supposed to indicate the annual growth of the horns, was 

 apparently about eight years old when it was killed two months 



The Cyprian Mouflon is not found in all parts of the island, but 

 is confined to the Troodos mountains in the western central portion, 



