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OVIS. SHEEF. 



Generic Character, 



Cornua concava, retrorsum 

 versa, intorta, rugosa. 



Denies Primores inferiores 



octo, 

 Laniarit nulli. 



Horns hollow, wrinkled, lurn- 

 ing backwards, and spi- 

 rally intorted. 



Front-teeth eight in the lower 

 jaw. 



Canine-teeth none. 



ARGALI. 



Ovis Ammon. 0. cornibus arcuatis semicircularibus subtus pla" 

 niuscidis, palearibiis laxis pilosis. Lin, Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 200, 



Sheep with arcuated semicircular horns^ flat beneath, and loose 

 hairy dewlaps. 



Capra Ammon. C. cornibus arcuatis semicircularibus subtus ph" 

 ninsculis, palearibus laxis jnlosis, gula imhcrbi, Lin. Syst, Nat^ 

 p. 97. 



LeMouflon. Buff. 11. p. 3^2. pi. 29. 

 Wild Sheep. Fennant Quadr. i.p. 44. 



Ovis fera Sibirica^ vulgo Argali dicta. Pall. Spic. ZqoL li» p- 

 3. t. I, 2. 



As the Capra ^gagrus, or Caucasan Ibex, is 

 supposed to be the original of the domestic Goat, 

 so the Ovis Ammon, Argali, or Musimon, is be- 

 heved to t(e the chief primseyal stock from which 



