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THE MCSMON OF CORSICA. 
The general tint of the body is a yellow, tending 
to chestnut or ash colour, deepest on the neck, and 
clear on several parts of the back and lumbar re- 
gions. The bead is ash-grey: the muzzle more or 
less approaching to pure white, which colour occu- 
pies also the region of the eyes, the interior of the 
ears, the belly and inside of the thighs, the edges of 
the tail, and the extremity of the legs. A band of 
ill-defined brown stretches along the back to the up- 
per part of the tail. The horns are brown, tending 
to ochraceous. All the fleece owes its tints to the 
-ong hair, which exceeds the woolly part in length. 
In the parts more intensely coloured, the hair is of a 
deep yellow, black, or black and yellow, in different 
proportions, according to the different parts they 
clothe. The curled hair which constitutes the wool 
properly so called, is of an ash colour or rusty white. 
In winter, all the hair is thicker, more inclining to 
chestnut on the coloured parts. The line along the 
back is blackish, especially upon the shoulders. In 
some specimens, the tints, notwithstanding the sea- 
sons, are all pale or whitish. 
The female is constantly distinguished from the 
male by the want of horns ; but we have seen indi- 
viduals furnishedtvith them, though only one or two 
inches long. The young are generally of a paler 
yellow. 
It inhabits the highest peaks and desert places of 
the mountains in the various provinces of southein 
Spain, in Sardinia and Corsica, European Turkey* 
