H{')'2 Ml;. 1!. 1. I'ot ()( K UN TiiF, [June 14, 



J)o)»Psticat('d Slifi'ji. 



( )t I )(»inesti{";ite<l Sheep 1 have exiiiiiiuecl examples of inaiiy 

 hi-eeils from dilleient eountries without liiiiHiijLj any variations of 

 moment in tlie strueture of the pedal, inguinal, oi- pi-eoibital glands. 

 Till' rarest speeimens were the following : — a landa of three or four 

 months old from Fair Island between the (,)rkrieys and Shetlands, 

 belonging to All'. A. J. Sewell ; a blaek hnubof about two months 

 old. [trobably belonging to a four-horned breed from Ciiithne&s in 

 Scotland ; an adult .shoi't-tiiiled ram of the breed from the island 

 of Son in the Hebrides ; a Hunia or Fighting Ram from Nepal 

 and a four-horned breed from the same country, both short-tailed ; 

 two rams of the long-tailed mailed breed belonging to the Haussa 

 tril)es of K. Nigeria ; and a fat-tiiiled South-African Sheep 

 belonging to Sir Claud Alexander *. 



In three of these sheej), namely, in the Caithness aiid Soa 

 specimens and in the Hnnia Ham, I noticed that the interungual 

 ai'ea was hairy, exactly as in 0. vu/ufi, and not naked as in the 

 example of 0. itmsinion desciibeil above. 



In no Sheeji, domesticated or wild, have I found the pedal glands 

 absent : and in every case where the scent of the secretion was 

 tested it had the sweet odour of toffee. The histology of the 

 pedal glands of Oris arlcs has l)een fully described by Max 

 Tempel. 



(ienus Ammotuagi'S Blyth. 



A.MMOTRAGIS LERVIA Pall. ( = OviS TRAGELAPHUs). 



(The Barbary Wild Sheep.) 



1 ha\e had no opportunity of examining a dead sj)ecinien of 

 this s[)ecies ; but careful inspection of a living male example gave 

 the following results. 



There was no trace of preorbital gland. Inguinal glands also 

 were absent, and there was a single pair of teats. The feet weie 

 constructed as in Sheep and (loat* ; but there was no trace, either 

 upon front or hind feet, of any orifice leading into a special gland 

 such as is present in Sheep. In Sheep the orifice of this gland 

 may be seen at once by superficial scrutiny of the front of the 

 pastern, in spite of the hairy clothing. The most striking 

 peculiarity about the feet of this example of O.Jervia was the 

 apparent smoothness of llie interungual integument and the 



* It !•< (•oiniiioiily stiitid ill works on Natiniil History tliat donu'stioati'd lirecds of 

 Slicepililt'cr from all the wild s]n'cics in Imviiijr loii",^ tails. This is not tnii'. Oft lie 

 nbovc-iiiciitioiu'd Sliccp tlic sliorlfst tail, coiitiiiniiifr only 6 vertebrir with a short 

 teriiiinal iiiisi'j;in<'iitril iiortion, wa> toiiiid in tlir Son breed. The Fight inu or Hunia 

 I{aiii from Nejia! bad a tail ((J inches loii);, contaiiiinji In vertebrie. In the t'aithiiess 

 breed llii' tail seareely reaebed the bocks and contaiiidl l.i vertebra'. In the Hanssa 

 Sheeii, on the contrary, the tail nearly rea<-beil the fetlocks and was coiii]iosed of 

 '20 vertebra', as in a fat-tailed Asiatic Slice)) nieiitioiird by I'allas. It may be added 

 that Xe|)i'.lese Slice]) of the Hunia. four-borneii, and oiie-lioriied races all have 

 short taiU, the tnil of an adult four-horned specimen nieasurinjj only 'i\\ inches. 



