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fiderably ; in both the wool is long, pendant, and hairy. Dr Gmelin expreffes a doubt whether this 

 may not be the common flock of all the varieties of Sheep. This is almoft the only kind of Sheep 

 brought to market in Auftria, where it is named Zackl. 



3. Argali.— 2. Ovis Amnion. 2. 



The horns are large, femicircularly arched backwards and divergent, wrinkled on their 

 upper furface, and flattifh on the under fide; and the neck has two pendant hairy- 

 wattles. Erxleb. mam. 250. n. 2. 



Capra Amnion. Syft. nat. ed, xii. 97. n. 12. — Hircus, f. Capra orientalis. BrifF. regn. an. 71, 



n. 12. — Mufmon, et Ophion. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 49. xxviii. c. 9. xxx. c. 15 Mufmon, f. Mu- 



fimon. Gefn. quad. 934. Zimmerman. 114. 546. — Mufimon, et Tragelaphus Belonii. Raj. quad. 

 75. 82. — Tragelaphus, f. Muflon. Klein, quad. 20. — Rupicapra cornibus arietinis. J. G. Gmelin, 

 nov. com. Petrop. iv. 388. et fumm. 53. t. 8. b. f. 2. 3. — Ovis fera fibirica, f. Argali vulgo dicta. 

 Pall. fp. zool. xi. 3. t. 1. 2. — Mouflon. Sm. Buff. vi. 205. pi. clix. — Stepnie Baranni. J. G. Gme- 

 lin, It. fib. i. 368. — Kameuni Baranni, oderMufimons. Steller, Camtfchatc. 1 27. — Das wilde Schaaf, 

 et der Weiffars der Alten. Gefn. thierb. 154. 155. — Orientalifches Schaaf. S. G.. Gmelin, It. iii. 

 486. t. 55. — Wild Sheep. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 11 H *. — Siberian Chamois. Brill", quad. 42. 



Inhabits, in fmall flocks, the rocky and defert places, expofed to the heat of the fun, on the Al- 

 pine region in the center of Afia, in Kamtfchatka, the Kurili iflands, probably on the weft fide of 

 North America, and in California ; and on the higheft mountains of Barbary, Sardinia, Corfica, and 

 Greece. — This animal is about the fize of a finall Deer, and has much the appearance of being a 

 wild Sheep : It is exceffivcly wild, fwift, and active, and fights violently with its horns ; it acquires 

 its full growth in two years, and feldom lives more than fourteen ; the female brings one or two 

 lambs in the month of March : The general colour in fummer is a browniih afh, mixed with 

 grey .on the upper parts of the body, and a whitifh afh on the lower parts ; in winter the former 

 changes to a rufty grey, and the latter to a whitifh grey; in winter the hair is about an inch and a 

 half long, which falls off in fpring, and the fummer coat is very fhor-t : the tail is very fhort, of a. 

 white colour, and browniih at the end ; the ears are croft and fharp pointed ; the eyes are large, 

 and generally of a brown or blue colour ; the horns, which come to their full fize in three years, are 

 whitifh, angular, wrinkled tranfverfely, large, clofe at their bafes, and placed on the top of the head.,, 

 then rife at firft nearly upright,, are reflected backwards, divergent, and turned downwards and out- 

 wards at the ends; thofe of the female are fmaller, and more hooked, but are fometimes entirely 

 wanting ;; the hind legs are rather longer than the fore legs, which fits the animal rather for running 

 up hill than on plain ground: The horns of the old Rams are faid to grow to fuch an enormous fize- 

 as to weigh fifteen pounds each, and to meafure two Ruffian yards in length.. The fiefh and fat are. 

 efteemed great delicacies in Siberia. 



/3. Corfican Argali. — Ovis Amnion europaea. 



Refembles the former, but is of a brown colour tinged with tawny on the upper parts, 

 with a white mark on each fide pointing to the belly. Penn. hift. of quad. .n- n. H *. 2. 



I have introduced this variety on the authority of Mr Pennant, who diftinguifhes between the 

 Argali of Cornea and the Siberian, though the difference fecnis chiefly in colour ; one fpecimen,. 



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