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VERTEBRATA, 
THE OVINA OR OVEJS. 
This tribe includes the Common Sheep and the allied species. These are all marked by a flat 
or concave forehead, triangular hoofs, horns more or less spiral and wide at the base. The horns 
are often wanting in the female. They are divided into two genera. 
Genus MOUFLON : Muslmon. — The animals of this genus arc distinguished by short tails^ 
rough hair, and enormous horng ; they live on the mountains, and though their numbers are small, 
they are found widely dispersed in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 
The MusMON- or Mouflon, M. inusmon — the Capra Ammon of Linnjeus — is found in the 
mountains of Corsica and Sardinia, where it is called Muffoli and Mufione, from which Buffon 
formed the name Mouflon ; it is said to be also found in the islands of Cyprus and Candia. It 
is about the size of the common sheep, but of a stouter frame ; its covering is long, rough hair, 
beneath which there is finer hair resembling wool ; the prevailing color is a vinous red above 
and a dirty white below; it is subject, however, to varieties of color ; the horns of the male are 
deeply ridged and annulated. The animals of this species have a close resemblance to the com- 
mon sheep in their liabits : they assemble and pasture together in flocts, and though naturally 
shy and wild, are easily tamed, when they readily associate and breed with the domestic flocks. So 
strong, however, is the love of association, that if kept alone they soon pine away and die. 
The Sha, or Kock, M. Vic/nei, is the wild mountain sheep of the north of India, and is also 
found in Thibet. We are told that numbers of these are forced in winter, by the snows, from 
the mountain heights down to the borders of the Indus. 
The Armenian Sheep, M. Orientalis^ is a native of Armenia, 
The Nervate, or Sna of Nahoor — the Fseudois nahura of Hodgson — is a native of JSTepauL 
