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have the true name, by which this species should be de- 

 signated from that of Tragelaphus, adopted by Caius and 

 Gesner, because Pliny noticed an animal with a forked 

 beard, residing on the banks of the Phasis in Asia, as evi- 

 dently intended for the iEgagrus, or the Caucasian Ibex. 



M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, described and figured * a wild 

 sheep of the mountains of Egypt, which has great affinity 

 to this, and may be a variety, or perhaps merely differing 

 from youth. It is not larger than a common ram ; the 

 horns are only eleven inches in circumference, and the 

 throat, not the under-jaw, is lined with long pendulous 

 hairs, but there is no mane on the neck, nor tufts upon the 

 shoulders ; the knees, as in the former, are protected by a 

 kind of ruffles, consisting of straight hairs about five inches 

 long, hanging quite round them ; the tail is longer, or 

 nearly six inches ; the colour pale rufous, and the hoofs 

 as in the Argali. It was discovered in the mountains of 

 Egypt. 



The figure published by Mr. Pennant is a copy from a 

 print by Bassau, after a drawing of Oudry, representing a 

 species of Argali which belonged to the Menagerie of the 

 King of France ; this must have lived some time in captivity 

 as appears by the great length of the hoofs, which in- 

 variably assume an unnatural appearance, when these ani- 

 mals are long confined. The general aspect of the specimen is 

 not unlike the former, but the horns, placed at a considerable 

 distance from each other on the head, are smaller at base, 

 forming a curve indeed, as in the Argali, but the points 

 turning more directly and irregularly outwards. There is 

 a considerable undivided beard under the throat, but no 



jlj tall, wanderer, or the desert wanderer ; vehsh signifies also, 

 animal silvestre /era, a wandering wild, animal. 



* In the great work on Egypt, by the Institute of Cairo, it is 

 there named Mouflon d'Afrique. We found the specimen in the 

 Museum of Paris. 



