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have also had females of this species brought to me by the hunts- 

 men, with small horns, resembling those of the ewes of some of 

 our domestic Sheep ; but, on reflection, I find that I cannot assert 

 this positively, though I retain the general impression." It is high- 

 ly probable, that a wild type of O. Aries is here adverted to, which 

 would thus inhabit the same ranges of mountains as the wild common 

 Goat, (C. j^gagrus) : and with respect to the circumstance of horns 

 in the female sex, I may here remark, that this character is very apt to 

 be inconstant throughout the present group. It has already been 

 noticed in the instance of O. Nahoor ; and the elder Gmelin states that 

 the females of O. Amnion are sometimes hornless, while those of 

 the Corsican O, Musimon are generally so. The same likewise 

 happens in different species of wild Goats, in the Goral of India, 

 and in the prong-horned animal of North America ; and even in the 

 Gazelles, and other bovine-nosed species of what are commonly 

 confused together under the name of Antelope, there have been 

 instances of hornless males as well as females. A male Spring-bok of 

 this description, as I am informed by Colonel Hamilton Smith, was long 

 in the possession of the Empress Josephine ; and the specimen of 

 Ixalus Probaton^ Ogilby, in the Museum of this Society doubtless 

 aff'ords another example of the same phenomenon. 



10. O. Vignei, nobis: the Shd (not Snd) of Little Tibet, and 

 Koch of the Sulimani range between India and Afghanistan.* — This 

 fine species is closely allied to the Corsican Moufflon, but is much 

 larger, with proportionally longer limbs, and a conspicuous fringe of 

 lengthened blackish hair down the front of the neck, and not lying 

 close, as in the MouflBon.f Its size, as I am informed by Mr. Vigne, 

 is that of a large Fallow Deer, and " from the general appearance 

 of these animals, their length of leg, and swiftness on the mountains, 

 they reminded me," remarks that gentleman, " of Deer, rather than 

 Sheep." 



* Also the Kutchgar of Pamir, described by Lieut. Wood, and Kooshgarox Kooch-i- 

 Koh of Sir Alexander Burnes ; Ovis cycloceros, Hutton, ('Calcutta Journal of Natural 

 History, No. IV. p. 557. ')-E. B. 



t At least as in the Mufflon in sunamer dress, for in winter it also hangs loosely in 

 this animal. I believe now, however, that the summer and winter coats of both spe- 

 cies will be found to correspond in this particular. — E. B. 



