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horn-core is furrowed by deep flutings not observ- 

 able in that of the latter. The comparison with 

 the red sheep is, however, altogether misleading, as 

 the fragment of the right horn-core which remains 

 is sufficient to show that its curvature corresponded 

 in the main with that of the mouflon, although the 

 fossil frontlet seems to indicate a somewhat larger 

 sheep, which may have been allied to the Asiatic 

 urial. The proper name of the Forest-bed sheep 

 is, of course, Ovis savini. 



Remains of a large sheep from the Pleistocene 

 deposits of the south of France described in the year 

 1879 by PommeroP under the name of Ovis antiqua 

 have been subsequently regarded by Dr. A. Nehring^ 

 as representing a species near akin to the existing 

 Marco Polo's argali of the Pamirs of Central Asia. 

 From the Pleistocene of Moravia Dr. Nehring^" 

 described at the same time the remains of another 

 member of the argali group, for which he proposed 

 the name O. argaloides. A third representative of 

 the same group, from the Pleistocene of Transbai- 

 kalia, has been described by Madam Pavlow,* under 

 the name of Ovis ammonfossilis. 



The bighorn group appears to be represented by 

 remains from the superficial formations of Siberia, 



• Comptes Rendus Assoc. Fra7tg. Avanc. Set., i879i P- 60. 

 ' Jahrbuchfiir Mineralogie, 1891, vol. ii. p. 150. 



' Ibid., p. 1 16. 



* Trav. Soc. Imp. Huss. Geogr.—Sect. d' Amour, vol. xiii. p. 26, 

 1911. 



