CAPUIN.E 123 



Ovig. Two teats ; tail relatively long, reaching nearly to 

 hocks, with long hairs on terminal half. No face-glands or 

 foot-glands. No beard ; males not malodorous. Skull 

 without lachrymal pits. Vertebrte : c. 7, D. 13, L. 6, s. 4, 

 ca. 14. 



Restricted to North Africa. 



AMMOTRAGUS LERVIA. 



Antilope lervia, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, p. 12, 1777. 



Ovis tragelaphus, Cuvier, Begne Animal, vol. i, p. 268, 1817 ; Des- 



marest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 486, 1822 ; H. S^nUh, Griffith's 



Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 319, v, p. 359, 1827 ; Oray, List 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 169, 1843 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 



Mils. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 248, 1884 ; Lataste, Act. Soo. Linn. 



Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, p. 288, 1885 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 



Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 141, 1891 ; Flower and LydeJclcer, Study of 



Mammals, p. 354, 1891 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 257, 



1896. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) tragelaphus, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, pp. 13 



and 76. 

 Ammotragus tragelaphus. Gray, Knoivsley Menagerie, vol. ii, p. 40, 



1850, Cat. JJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 179, 1852, Cat. Buminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 134, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 134, 



1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 252, 1862. 

 Musimon tragelaphus, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. p. 192, 1853. 

 jEgoceros tragelaphus, Heuglin, Petermann' s Mitt. 1861, p. 16. 

 Aries tragelaphus, Lataste, Explor. Saient. Tunisie, Mamm. p. 35, 



1887. 

 Ovis (Ammotragus) lervia, Lydelcker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 226, 1898, Game Animals of Africa, p. 86, 1908. 

 Ovis lervia, Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm, p. 334, 



1902 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 389, 1910 ; Bothschild, 



Novit. Zool. vol. XX, pt. 2, 1913. 

 Ammotragus lervia, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, p. 13 ; 



PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 862 ; Lydehher, The Sheep and 



Its Cousins, p. 302, 1912. 



AeuI : Barbary Sheep. 



Typical locality Mauretania. 



Size comparatively large ; shoulder-height about 39 inches. 

 Head relatively long and narrow, with rather large ears ; a 

 short upright mane from neck to middle of back ; long hair 

 developed on throat, sides of body and limbs. Tips of 

 horns directed inwards, or inwards and downwards. General 

 colour of head, upper-parts, and outer side of limbs uniform 

 rufous or greyish brown, rather darker on mane ; inside of, 

 ears, chin, middle line of under-parts, and inner surface of 



