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Notes on the Wild Sheep of the Hindoo Koosh, and a species of 

 Cicada, By Capt. Hay. 



Genus Ovis. Incisors I Molars — = 32. 



8 6-6 



Adult male 3 feet 4 inches at shoulder. From nose to tail 

 5 feet 4 inches ; head 1 foot ; horns 2 feet 6 inches in length, 

 tip generally broken, and 12 inches in circumference at the 

 base, and turned spirally backwards and downwards, points 

 afterwards incline forward. 



A large beard from the cheeks and under jaw, divided into 

 two lobes, neck ponderous, 14 inches long and 24 in circum- 

 ference. 



It has no mane above. General color pale rufous, inclining 

 to grey, fading off to white beneath. Muzzle white ; beard on 

 either lobe white, connected to a streak of long black flow- 

 ing hair reaching to the chest. Legs covered with white smooth 

 short hair; belly white; tail small, short, and together with 

 buttocks white. 



Girth of body measured behind shoulders 4 feet. 



Has a lachrymary sinus, very perceptible on dissection, there 

 being a deep cavity in the bone under the eye. 



The hair is particularly electric. 



This differs from the Ovis Tragelaphus (of Dr. Smith), or 

 bearded. Argali, in the following respects — 



1st. In having a lachrymary sinus. 



2d. In having no standing mane. 



3d. In having no long hair on the knees. 



4th. In colour of horns, which in the species inhabiting the 

 mountains of Mauritiania (Morocco) are black. 



A variety of the Ovis Tragelaphus, inhabiting the mountains 

 of Upper Egypt, is represented as wanting the mane on the 

 shoulders, but is nevertheless said to have long tufts of hair 

 round the fore knees, which differs from the species inhabiting 

 the hills of the Hindoo Koosh range, and now under description. 



