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larger, with proportionally longer limbs, and a conspicuous fringe 

 of lengthened blackish hair down the front of the neck, and not 

 lying close, as in the Moufflon. Its size, I am informed by Mr. 

 Vigne, is that of a large Fallow Deer ; and from the general appear- 

 ance of these animals, their length of leg, and swiftness on the 

 mountains, ' they reminded me,' remarks that gentleman, ' of Deer 

 rather than Sheep.' 



" The general colour of this animal, to judge from an elaborately 

 finished painting, taken from a living individual in its native country 

 by Mr. Vigne, to whom we are indebted for all we know concerning 

 the species, is a rufous brown, apparently not so deep as in the 

 Moufflon ; the face livid, or devoid of the rufous tinge of the body, 

 and not terminated by a white muzzle, as in the Moufflon Sheep : 

 the belly is white, separated by a black lateral band ; and the limbs 

 are brown, not mottled, as in the Moufflon, but with a whitish ring 

 immediately above each hoof, then a dark ring, and above this a 

 little white posteriorly, as in the Nylghau. The fringe in front of 

 the neck is doubtless peculiar to the male, and the hairs of it would 

 appear to be 4 or 5 inches long, and hang loosely. Tail about 6 

 inches long, and slender, apparently resembhng that of the Armenian 

 species rather than the Moufflon's. 



" A full-grown pair of horns measure 32| inches over the cun'a- 

 ture, and 1 1 inches round at base ; their widest portion apart, mea- 

 sured outside, is 2 feet, the tips converging to 8 inches, and span 

 from base to tip also 8 inches : they are subtriangular, much com- 

 pressed laterally, the anterior surface 2| inches broad at base, with 

 its side-angles about equally developed, and the posterior part of the 

 section tapers rather suddenly to a somewhat acute angle ; eight 

 years of growth are very perceptible, which successively give 12, 7, 

 4, 3, 3, 1|, 1|, and i, inches ; they bear considerable resemblance to 

 those of the Moufflon Sheep, but differ in being very much larger, 

 and in the circumstance of the outer front-angle being as much de- 

 veloped as the inner one ; and they have not the slightest tendency 

 to spire, but, describing three-fourths of a circle, and originally di- 

 verging as in a common Ram, they point towards the back of the 

 neck, somewhat as in 0. Trugelaphus. Another and younger speci- 

 men, however, has a decided spiral flexure outward, more especially 

 towards the tip, and has also the outer angle much less developed 

 than in the corresponding terminal portion of the former. I'his 

 pair had grown to 11 inches long, with the tips 14^ inches apart ; 

 only one year's growth, and that appparently incomplete, is how- 

 ever exhibited, and the curvature is likewise less than in the older 

 specimen. The portion of skull attached is also so much smaller, 

 that I think it prudent to hesitate in identifying it as specifically the 

 same. The posterior margins of the orbits are but 4^ inches apart, 

 whereas in the other they are 5^ inches. There are no materials 

 for extending the comparison, but a few more dimensions may be 

 given of the smaller one. The greatest width of this skull, at the 

 posterior portion of the zygoma, is 5 inches, and the orbits are 3;^- 

 inches distant where most approximated ; the series of 5 developed 



