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I. OVIS AEIES. 



Ovis aries, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 70, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 97, 1766 ; Lydekker, The Sheep and Its Cousins, pp. 1, 47, 

 1912. 



The type of the genus, and not definitely known in a 

 wild state, although it is most probable that the mouflon 

 {0. musimon) is one of the ancestral forms. If this were 

 proved to be the case, that animal should be known as Ovis 

 aries musimon. 



II. OVIS MUSIMON. 



Ovis musimon, Schreher (ex Pallas), Sdugthiere, vol. v, pi. oclviii. 

 1782 ; Wagner, Suppl. to do. vol. iv, p. 242, 1844 ; Q-ray, Knoivsley 

 Menagerie, p. 36, 1850; Blasius, Sdugeth. Deutschlands, p. 471, 

 1857 ; Cornalia, Fauna Ital. — Mamm. p. 56, 1870 ; Severtzow, 

 Trans. 8oc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873 ; Mower 

 and Oarson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 243, 1884 ; 

 Flower and Lydehher, Study of Mammals, p. 356, 1891 ; Brehm, 

 Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugeth. vol. iii, p. 220, 1891 ; LydeJcJcer, Wild 

 Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 154, 1898, Great and Small Game of 

 Europe, ^tc. p. 132, 1901, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 46, 1912 ; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 414, 1910 ; Pococh, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 857 ; Tesdorpf, Einbiirgerung des Muffelwildes 

 (Mouflons) auf dem europaischen Festlande, Neudamm, 1910, 

 p. 9 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 242, 1910 ; Nasonov, 

 Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, p. 1292; Miller, Cat. Matmti. 

 W. Europe Brit. Mus. p. 987, 1912; Satunin, Mitt. Kaukas. 

 Mus. vol. vii, p. 78, 1912. 



jEgoceros m.usimon, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso.-Asiat. vol. i, p. 230, 1811. 



Ovis musmon, S. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 322, 

 V, p. 360, 1827; Jardine, Nat. Libr.-Mamm. vol. iv, p. 132, 

 1836; Bonaparte, Iconogr. Fauna Ital.-Indice distrib. 1841. 



Gapra musmon, Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 488, 1829. 



Ovis musimon var. occidentalis, Brandt and Batzeburg, Med. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 55, 1829. 



Caprovis musimon, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, 

 p. 702, 1847 ; Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 173, 1852, Cat. 

 Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 56, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 132, 1873. 



Musimon musmon, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 191, 1855; 

 Graells, Mem. Ac. Madrid, vol. xvii, p. 369, 1897. 



Musimon musimon, Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, 

 art. 2, p. 85, 1873. 



(?) Ovis matschiei, Buerst, in Wilckens' Grundziige Naturgesch. 

 Haustiere, ed. 2, pp. 177 and 180, Leipsic, 1905. 



MOTJELON. 



