884 A Monograph of the species of Wild Sheep. [No. 1 19. 



and the latter to nine inches; there is also some lengthened hair 

 at the setting on of the head, and a dense nuchal mane, the hairs of 

 which are three inches long, continued over the withers till lost 

 about the middle of the back. General colour tawny, or yellow- 

 brown ; horns moderately stout, turning outwards, backwards, and 

 so inwards, with the tips inclining towards each other. 



The splendid male in the British Museum measures 5 feet from 

 nose to tail, and tail 9 inches, or with its terminal tuft of hair 13 inches ; 

 height of the back 31 feet, but the living animal would not have 

 stood so high by some inches ; from muzzle to base of horn 1 1 

 inches, and ears 5 inches. The finest pair of horns which I have 

 seen are in the same collection, and measure 25 inches over the 

 curvature, 101 round at base, with an antero-posterior diameter of 

 21 inches inside ; they diverge to 23 inches apart, measuring outside, 

 at a distance of 6 inches from the tips, which latter return to 15 

 inches asunder; their span from base to tip inside is 13 inches : at base 

 they are closely approximated, but not quite in contact. General 

 form subquadrangular for nearly a foot, then gradually more com- 

 pressed to the end, and having a very deep longitudinal furrow for the 

 greater portion of their length outside, above which the horn bulges : 

 there is a mark of annual growth at 11 inch from the base, another 

 ll inch further, and a third after an interval of 3 inches; but the rest 

 are too indistinct to be made out with certainty among the wrinkles 

 of the horn. A large pair of female horns were 16 inches long; 7^ 

 round at base; their widest portion apart, near the tips, 19 inches; 

 and the tips i7:|^ inches : their surface is marked with broad transverse 

 indentations, which in the males ordinarily become more or less effaced 

 with age. The female of this species is a third smaller than the other 

 sex ; and a lamb in the collection of this Society is extremely kid-like, 

 with the spinal mane upon the neck and shoulders very conspicuous, 

 but no lengthened hair on the fore-neck and limbs ; in the half grown 

 male, the latter especially is still not much developed. 



This species is well known as the Aoudad of the Moors, and the 

 Kebsh of the Egyptians ; it is also, according to Riippell, the Tedal of 

 the inhabitants of Nubia, which is doubtless the same ^s Teytal, appli- 

 ed by Burckhardt to the Wild Goat of that region, in addition to the 

 word Beden, which (in common with Riippell and others) he also as- 



