SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



873. 1. Ovis Ammon (Asiatic Arg-ali.) Adult male about 

 three feet high at the shoulder, and five feet in lengrth ; 

 horns sometimes near four feet in length, and fourteen 

 inches in circumference at base, placed on the summit of 

 the head, touching in front, and covering the occiput, 

 bending out backwards and laterally, then forwards and 

 outwards; at base triangular; surface wrinkled; general 

 colour fulvous-gray above, white beneath, with a whitish 

 disk on the buttocks ; hair close, concealing the wool be- 

 neath ; female smaller, with slender wrinkled horns, nearly 

 straight. 



O. KmmoUyErxl.Gmel. Capra Ammon, LiVi. OvisArgali, 

 Bodd. Stepnie Barani, Gmel. Ophion of the Ancients. 

 Artak, Ruhruquis. Dishon of the Pentateuch? Pygargon 

 of the Septuagint ? Weisfarsh of the old German icriters. 



Icon, Pallas. Nobis. 



Habitat. The mountains and Steppes of Northern Asia, 

 Tartary, Siberia, the Kurile Islands. 



Var.^ 0. Pygargus^ Nob. (American Argali.) Adult 

 male three feet high at the shoulder ; four feet six inches 

 in length; horns more spiral, fifteen inches in circum- 

 ference at base, bent more forward, the tips generally 

 broken off, more round at the base ; no long hairs under 

 the throat ; colour dun rufous-gray ; a large white disk on 

 the rump ; tail short ; eyes pale bluish-gray. 



Wild Sheep of California. Venegas, Clavigero. Culblanc 

 of the Canadiaiis ; O. Montana, Geof. Big-horned Sheep 

 of the Americans. O. Pygargus, Nob. MS. 



Icon. Shaw. Natural Miscel. Geoff. Nobis male and 

 female. 



Habitat. The Rocky Mountains, and North-west coast 

 of North America. 



874. 2. 0. Tragelaphus (Bearded Argali.) Adult male 



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