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Genus OVIS. 
From the Goats, so closely allied, we naturally 
pass to the generally accepted genus Ovis or Sheep, 
and as we proposed, we add Major Smith’s character. 
“ Horns common to both sexes, sometimes want- 
ing in the females. They are voluminous, more or 
less angular, transversely wrinkled, pale coloured, 
turned latterly in spiral directions, first towards the 
rear, vaginating upon a porous bony axis. The fore- 
head and chaffron arched ; they have no lachrymal 
sinus, no muzzle, no inguinal pores, no beard pro- 
perly so called. The females have two rnammse ; tail 
rather short, ears small, legs slender, hair of two 
hinds, one harder and close, the other woolly. In a 
rlomestic state, the wool predominates, the horns vary 
®r disappear, the ear and tail lengthen, and several 
other characters undergo modifications. The genus 
is gregarious in the mountains of the four quarters of 
the globe.”* 
On comparing the above with the characters given 
to Capra, the differences will not be found to be 
very great, consisting chiefly in the form of the horns 
• Major Smith in Griffith’s Cuvier. 
