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Inhabits Armenia; Erzeroom (^Sir John Mac Neil). Mus. Zool. Soc. Male, female and young. Male 
in Brit. Museum. 
The stze of the Common Sheep. 
The MouFLON. Ovts Musimon. 
Capra Orientalis, Brisson, R. A. 71.— Gmelin, Reiss. vii. 486. t. 55. — C. Ammon, Bluraeiib. Natur. x. 117. — 
Gmelin, part. — Ovis Ammon, Erxl. Syn. part . — Ovis Musimon, Schreb. t. 286 a. — O. Aries /era, Desm. 
N. D. xxi. 554. — Capra Musmon, Fischer, Syn. 488.— Bonap. Fauna Ital. 45. t. 1.— Musimon, Ray, Quad. 
Ib.— Tragelaphus, ^&]\.on.—Mouflon, Buffon, H. N. xi. 352. t. 29.— F. Cuv. Mara. Lith. t. 69.— Knight, 
Mus. A Nat. f. 673, 674. 
Inhabits ; Corsica, males called Mufro, females Mufra ; Sardinia, males called Murwni, females Murm, 
or both sexes, Mufion. Gardens, Zool. Soc. 
In confinement it breeds with the Domestic Sheep, the mules being called Umbii. 
Messrs. Brandt and Ratzeburg figured a specimen of Mouflon in the Berlin Museum brought from 
Cyprus, which Blyth thinks may probably prove a distinct species, and he therefore proposed to call it 
0. Ophion, because the horns have more the curvature of Ovis Gmelini, but are not so robust, and curve 
round gradually backwards from the base, instead of at first diverging straightly, as in the latter species ; 
Blasius has named the same figure O. Cyprius-. see also Bull. Soc. Moscow, 1841, 568. It may be doubt 
ful if these three species are mere local varieties. 
** Throat or sides without any dark streak. Horns large, heavy. Argali. 
The Argali. Ovis Argali. 
Mgoceros Argali, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 224.— Tilesius, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 279. t. 23, head.— 
Boganus, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 291. t. 24, 25, skull. — Capra Ammon, Linn. S. N. i. t. 77, part. — 
Ovis Ammon, Erxl. Syst. 250, part.— Schreb. t. 288.— Blyth, P. Z. S. 1840, 17 .— Ovis Argali, Pallas, Spic. 
xi. 3. 1. 1, 2.—Rupicapra arietinus, I. G. Gmelin, Nov. Conn. Petrop. iv. 388. 53. t. 8 b. f. 2, 3.— Ovis Hodg- 
sonii, Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 199 ; P. Z. S. 1840, 65.— Siberian Goat, Venn. Synn. 18.— Wild Siberian Sheep, 
Penn. Quad, i.38.— Argali, Shaw, Zool. ii. t. 201.— Argali or Bebier Savage,'WsiX\gle, Nord Siberia, ii. 158, 168. 
— Nahoor Sheep (female), Hodson, Asiat. Research, xviii. t. . — Ovis nivicola, Eschscholtz, Zol. Atlas, t. 1. 
Inhabits Siberia; most northern part Ne\)a\ (^Hodgson). Brit. Mus. 
It would be very interesting to compare the animal from the most northern part of Siberia, where they 
are chased in winter, with those found in the Himalaya range. The Musk appears to have a similar exten- 
sive range. Ovis Nivicola is said to want the pale disk round the tail. 
The suborbital pit in the skull is moderately broad and concave. Mr. Hodgson observes that it has a 
distinct tear-bag and distinct interdigital pores (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, 1846, 308). 
The Big Horn. Ovis montana. 
Horns ringed, nearly equilaterally triangular, bulging a little between the angles ; the inner front 
angle obtusely prominent, the hinder double forming a second plane at a slight angle with the 
superior one, and the inferior angle much rounded off. 
Ovis montana, Geoff. Ann. Mus. ii. 351. t. 60.— Schreb. t. 294 B.— Desm. Ency. Meth. t. . f. .—Rich. 
Faun. Amer. Bor. — Ovis Ammon, Harlan, Faun. Am. 259. — O. Pygarga, H. Smith, G. A. K. — O. Cervina, 
Desm. N. D. H. N. xxi. 553. — Ovis Canadensis, Shaw. — Big Horned Sheep, Ord, Blainv. Journ. Phys. 1817, 
146.— Ovis Californica, Douglas, Zool. Journ. iv. 332. — Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 199. t. 5. f. 5, horns. — 
Berindo, Forbes, California. — Wild Sheep, Venegos, California. 
Inhabits California. 
Mr. Douglas's horns of the Californian Sheep (in the Mus. Zool. Soc.) are smoother, and more openly 
spiral than the Rocky Mountain Sheep. Mr. Douglas describes the tail as 18 inches long, but this is jiro- 
bably a mistake. 
The Rass or Roosh. Ovis Polii. 
Horns pale coloured, with the two front angles nearly equally developed. 
Ovis Polii, Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 195. t. 5. f. 1, 2, horns. — Ovis sculptorum, Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 196. t. 5. 
f. 3, 4 ? — Ovis Nahoor (young Ram), Hodgson, Asiatic Res. xviii. t. . f. . — Rasse, Burnes, Trav. Bok- 
hara, ii. 208. — Kutch-gar, Wood, Sources of the Oxus, 368. — Wild Sheep, Marco Polo, 142. 
Inhabits India; "Plains of Pamir, east of Bokhara, 16,000 feet above the sea level." Nepal, called 
Bamhhera ? ' 
Horns larger and less massive than 0. montana, more like domestic 0. Aries, but differs from them in 
being larger, and having the two front angles about equally developed. 
