THE MUSMON OF CORSICA. 
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in some of the islands of the Archipelago, and in the 
isle of Cyprus. The flocks consist sometimes of 
a hundred and more, placed under the guidance of 
some old and courageous male. In a domestic state, 
the young males and females are docile and gentle ; 
but the old males become subject to ill-natured fits, 
and sometimes assail children, women, and even 
men, attempting to bear them down by butting. 
Mr Hodgson has lately noticed an animal from 
the Nepalese territory, under the title of Ovis Na- 
hoor, but which he at the same time acknowledges to 
be very closely allied to the Musmon, and most pro- 
bably to be only a variety of it. The adult is about 
forty-eight inches in length, and thirty-two high ; 
the head coarse and expressionless, and clad with 
close short hair ; the chaffron considerably arched. 
The fur is of two sorts : the outer hair of a harsh, 
brittle, quill-like character, serpentined internally 
with salient bows of hair fitting into the resilient 
bends of one another ; externally straight, porrect 
over the skin, and being abundant, of medial uni- 
form length all over the body: the inner coat soft 
^nd woolly, rather spare. Horns twenty-two inches 
along the curve : they diverge greatly, but can scarce- 
ly be said to be spirally turned ; they are uncom- 
pressed, triangular, broadly convexed to the front, 
and cultrated to the back ; they are transversely 
