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is the Himalayan Argali (0. hodgsoni), having massive and strongly 
curved horns, with bold ridges, like those of the true Argali. 
Indeed, were it not for their isolated areas there would appear to 
be no grounds for distinguishing these two closely allied forms, 
and it is not improbable that they are really identical. 0. brookei 
appears to have been founded on a hybrid between 0. hodgsoni and 
O. vignet. In the same districts, and also in Southern Ladak, there 
occurs the Bharal (0. nahura), with smaller, smoother, and more 
spreading horns. Passing in a south-westerly direction we find a 
series of smaller forms, 0. vignei of Ladak, 0. cycloceros of Northern 
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Fic. 146.—The Moufilon (Ovis musimon). From a living animal in the London Zoological 
Gardens. 
India, Persia, and Baluchistan, 0. gmelini of Asia Minor and Persia 
O. ophion, confined to the elevated pine-clad Troodos Mountains of 
the island of Cyprus, and said at the time of the British occupa- 
tion in 1878 to have been reduced to a flock of about twenty-five 
individuals, and O. musimon, the Moufflon of Corsica and Sardinia 
(see Fig. 146), believed to have been formerly also a native of 
Spain. In the three latter species the females are hornless. Lastly. 
we have the somewhat aberrant, Goat-like Aoudad (0. tragelaphus), 
of the great mountain ranges of North Africa, in which, as already 
Stare | the te and horns resemble those of the Bharal 
although the tail is longer, and there is a thick fri tee 
on the throat, chest, and fore legs, neee one 
