514 The ivild Sheep of Afghanistan. 



Interioris membrana lutescens sedecies plicata, ciliis profund- 

 bipartitis, segmentis acuminatis ssepius convergentibus, cilios 

 lis irregularibus, ssepius binatim compositis liberis vel cibis 

 adbserentibus interjectis. 



Sporula sordide lutescentia, subreniformia, sublente fortifer aug- 

 ente minutissime scabrella, immersa opaca. 



Columella inclusa, magna, trigona. 



Operculum et calyptra desiderata. 



Proxima videtur, B. tomentosse, Hook Muse. exot. p. 15. t. 19. 



(To he continued.) 



The wild Sheep of Afghanistan — " Koh-i-poombur" of the 

 Afghauns. — Bearded Sheep of Pennant ? by Capt. Thos. 

 Hutton, Bengal Army. 



Ovis Cycloceros, Nobis. Plate xix. 



Among the many novel and beautiful forms which the 

 late campaign in Afghanistan has presented to our notice in 

 the Zoology of that country, by no means the least curious 

 and worthy of attention is the wild Sheep, which forms the 

 subject of the present paper. 



It is now long since Pennant recorded the existence of an 

 animal, which he but imperfectly described, and to which 

 he applied the name of the " Bearded Sheep." 



Subsequent authors were unable to determine this species, 

 until an animal was discovered at Cairo, by the eminent na- 

 turalists attached to the French expedition into Egypt, 

 which was described by M. G. St. Hilaire under the title 

 of the " Ruffled Mouflon," (Ovis ornata). 



This animal Messrs. Cuvier and Desmarest have consi- 

 dered identical with Pennant's " Bearded Sheep," and ac- 

 cordingly the two are now blended, and stand in our systems 

 as the " Bearded Argali," or " Ovis tragelaphus." 



