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From these we might proceed, through the domestic Aries, to the 

 species generally typified by the Movjffion of Corsica ; but I shall 

 interpolate a small group from the Himalaya, and apparently Caucasus, 

 distinguished by having smooth and sub-cylindrical horns, that form a 

 bold arc outwards at nearly right angles with the axis of the body, 

 and have the tip turned backward. Such is 



6. O. Nahoor, Hodgson. — The Nahoor or Nervati, and Slid (not 

 Shd) of Tibet. Size of the larger breeds of tame Sheep, with pale 

 horns; and general colour dull brownish grey in old animals, with 

 the ordinary dark markings on the face, breast, and limbs, more or 

 less developed. Younger specimens, more particularly, have their 

 coat, when renovated, tipped with a light fulvous tint, deeper along 

 the middle of the back ; the tail is bushy, and conspicuously white, 

 its medial portion generally dark. Length, as given by Mr. Hodgson, 

 4 feet from nose to base of tail, and height of the back 32 inches. 

 A female was 3 feet 4 inches from nose to tail, and stood 29 inches 

 high at the shoulder. From nose to between the horns a male mea- 

 sured Si inches ; the ears 4^ inches ; and tail 4 inches, or 7 inches to 

 the end of the hair. A pair of horns in the Museum of this Society, 

 which are far from having attained their full growth, measure 12 inches 

 in circumference at base, and 20^ inches long over the curvature, 

 having their tips 27 inches asunder : their successive annual growths 

 were respectively 6^, 4, 3, 2|, 21, and 1 j, inches.*' Those of a 

 very old female in the British Museum, have precisely the same curva- 

 ture as in the male, only that the tips do not turn so much backwards ; 

 they are, however, much compressed, and measure 9J inches long, 

 41 inches round, with the tips 14 inches apart. Another female, 

 in the collection of this (the Zoological) Society, is entirely desti- 

 tute of horns. The latter, and a young male which I formerly 

 examined at Mr. Leadbeater's, accorded perfectly with the description 

 by Mr. Hodgson, having pale slaty blue hairs, deeper on the back, and 

 tipped with a rufous tint, more particularly on the back, which caused 



* A handsome frontlet now before me, whereof the horns are in their tenth 

 year of growth, gives the following admeasurements. Horns 24i inches long over the 

 curvature, and 11^ inches round at base, with the reverted tips 26 inches asunder. la 

 another, but 7 years old, the horns measure 12| inches round at base, with a length 

 of 2 3^ inches. The annual growths of the former are successively 84, 2|, 2|, 2, 1| 

 U, U, U and 1 inches.— E. B. 



