i6 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



formed by adding to a ram with horns of the 

 Ammon type a pair of horns of the old Egyptian 

 long-horned breed already referred to. 



This, however, does not by any means exhaust 

 the variation displayed by the horns of sheep. 

 Dr. Fitzinger, in the passage already cited, pointed 

 out that the curvature of the horns of the red 



Head of a " Composite " Ram, from an Ancient Egyptian Monument, 

 1449-1423 B.C. (After Prisse.) 



sheep, or Gmelin's sheep {Ovis orientalis) of 

 Cyprus, Asia Minor, and Persia, differs from that 

 of the mouflon, and he considered that the spiral 

 runs in the reverse direction to that which obtains 

 in the latter. In this he was followed by Mr. 

 Wherry, who regarded the horns of the red sheep 

 as heteronymous in place of homonymous. 



In reality the horns of the red sheep have the 



