238 MISS D. M. A. BATE ON [Mar. 5, 



OviS COWANI, sp. n. 



This Sheep is nearest to 0. stonei, but differs in being entirely 

 deep black, with the exception of a white rump-patch and a grey 

 face. The rump-patch is considerably smaller than in 0. stonei. 

 The three-year old ram of 0. stonei is occasionally much darker 

 than a specimen of that species in my possession, but is always 

 of a rusty or brownish black, and has the very large white rump- 

 patch. 



The type specimen of 0. coivani was entire, but the skin had 

 only been dried and not dressed, and when relaxed the whole of 

 the hail- came off, and only the head and neck could be saved. 



The type, shot by an Indian out of a large flock, was sent 

 me by Mr. 0. G. Cowan, of Kamloops, and was obtained in the 

 mountain -chain near Mount Logan in British Columbia. 



Types of all these four species and subspecies are in the Tring 

 Museum. 



2. On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of 

 Elephas creticus, sp. n. By Dorothea M. A. Bate.* 



[Received February 1, 1907.] 

 (Plates XII. & Xlll.t, and. Text-figure 83.) 



Introchbction. 



Perhaps the most important and interesting of the results of 

 the author's visit to Crete in 1904 was the discovery, in two 

 hitherto unexplored cave-deposits, of the remains of Elephants of 

 different sizes, more particularly as the occurrence of one of these, 

 of pigmy proportions, appears not to have been previously known. 



Although prior to 1904 no large quantity of specimens seems 

 to have been obtained, yet the existence of ossiferous deposits 

 in this island has been known for a considerable time, as the 

 following records testify. The earliest would seem to be that of 

 Pococke, who described a bone-cave in the Khania Akrotiri in a 

 volume published in the middle of the eighteenth century J. 

 Nearly a hundred years after this, a reference occurs lelating to 

 fossilised human remains found, together with marine forms, near 

 Khania by Fabrequette §, who was at one time Consul at Malta. 

 Later, remains of a Hippopotamus, which pi'obably came from 

 the upland basin of Lassethe, were obtained by more than one 

 traveller ||, and have since been referred to by a number of writers. 

 Two ossiferous caves were discovered in the west of the island by 



* Communicated by Henkt Woodwaed, LL.D., F.E.S., V.P.Z.S., F.G.S. 



t For explanation of the Plates, see p. 250. 



J Richard Pococke, ' A Description of the East ' (London, 1745), vol. ii. p. 264. 



§ C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), iv. 1837, p. 182; also ibid. viii. 1839, p. 178. 



II See Admiral Spratt, 'Travels and Researches in Crete' (London, 1865), vol. ii. 

 pp. 386-7; also Raulin, ' Description Physique de I'lle de Crete' (Paris, 1869), vol.i. 

 p. 156, and vol. ii. p. 615. 



