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THE MUSMON OF CORSICA. 
Ovis Miismon. 
PLATE XI. 
Musmon of PSra)/.— Mufflon, Buffon, Cuvier, Fred. Cuvier. 
Hist, des JHammif. — Ovis Musmon, Hamitt. Smith — Ca- 
pra Musmon, Ariete Muffione, Bonaparte, Iconogra- 
phia. 
This Sheep, now, we may say, so comparatively 
little known, inhabits the mountainous wilds of Cor- 
sica and Sardinia, and has there only to contend 
against man as its enemy, no large carnivorous ani- 
mal existing which would carry destruction among 
its herds; and it is to this circumstance probably 
that these inlands are indebted to the remnants of the 
flocks which appear to have formerly existed among 
the mountains of Spain, and some neighbouring parts 
of the Continent of Europe. 
We have chosen to extract the description which 
the Prince of Musignano has given in his erudite 
and highly finished Iconographia, as one of the 
latest, and, as far as we can judge, most authentic* 
In 1818, there were living specimens in the Parisian 
