1 26 Great and Small Game of Africa 



representatives, it will be unnecessary to indicate all their points of 

 distinction here. The only African species of Ov/'s is the ami, udad, or 

 North African sheep (Ov/'s krvia), which is a very aberrant member of its 

 genus, characterised by the long hair on the fore-quarters, the comparatively 

 smooth horns, which are larger in the females than usual, the great relative 

 length of the tail, and the uniform coloration. 



The Arui, Audad, or Barbary Sheep (Ov/'s krvia) 



This, the only species of wild sheep indigenous to Africa, is known as 

 the Arui in Southern Algeria, as Udad or Audad in Eastern Algeria and 

 Southern Tunis, and as Wadan in 

 Tripoli and Fezzan. It possibly 

 has other native names in the south 

 of Morocco and on the borders of 

 Egypt. In Tunis it is universally 

 known as the Udad. The name 

 usually found in natural histories — 

 Aoudad — may possibly represent the 

 pronunciation expressed in French 

 spelling given to the name in 

 Eastern Algeria. The adult males 

 occasionally measure 3 feet 6 inches 

 at the shoulder, and have the bulk 

 of a small ox. In general appear- 

 ance the animal strikingly recalls 

 the large Hemitragines of the type of the Ta/ir, and it is not impos- 

 sible that it may have branched off from that stock direct, and only 

 present superficial resemblances to the sheep. In colour males, females, 

 and young are uniform reddish-gray — a reddish-gray tinged with yellow. 



F.g. 19.— He 



