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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



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Head of Male European Muflon. 

 From a specimen in the British Museum, shot by Ford G. Barclay. 



EUROPEAN MUFLON (Ovis musimon). 



The large light-coloured saddle on the otherwise dark summer coat 

 of the rams of this handsome and well-known little sheep is so 

 distinctive of the species that nothing in the way of description need be 

 attempted in this place. It may be observed, however, that the ewes 

 are generally hornless, and that the horns of the rams curve forwards 

 so as to have their tips below the eyes, and are comparatively massive, 

 with the wrinkles of a type somewhat different from that obtaining in 

 the Armenian sheep. Height at shoulder about 27 inches. 



A good account of muflon-shooting will be found in Mr. E. N. 

 Buxton's Short Stalks (first series). 

 Distrilmtio7i. — At the present day the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. 



Length on Circun,- ^. ^^ ^. 



front curve. lerencc. ^ 



34i 

 3oi 



Locality. 



1 63 

 II 



14 



Sardinia 

 Do. 

 Do. 



W. Moncreiffe. 

 C. Sloane Stanley. 

 Rhys Williams. 



