THE bearded argali. 
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dicate particular species. Thus, we have the Mou- 
flon of Corsica, and the Mouflon of America, &c. 
The species, of wliich a figure is annexed, is the 
Ruffled Mouflon ; and the following exact descrip- 
tion of it has been communicated to us by our 
friend M. J. G. St Hilaire, who drew it up from an 
individual brought from Egypt by his father, and 
preserved in the collection of the Museum of Natural 
History in Paris. 
“ The Ruffled Mouflon (" Ovis ornata ) is uni- 
formly of a fine reddish-yellow, thus approaching in 
Its general colour to our own species. The shade, 
however, is lighter than in the European animal, be- 
cause the yellow hairs are not intermingled with black 
ones, but, on the contrary, they are even white at the 
point, a circumstance which gives the hair a dotted 
appearance when viewed near at hand. The colour 
just mentioned is that of the body, head, and gi’eater 
part of the legs ; but the anterior part of the shanks 
and the dorsal line are of a brownish tint, and on 
the medial line, between the two legs, a black longi- 
tudinal stripe is observable. Lastly, the under side 
of the body, as well as the internal and inferior re- 
gions of the legs, are of a white colour, as in our 
own species ; always, however, with this difference, 
that the white portion of the body is of much less 
extent than in the latter. But the most singular 
character which this species presents, and which has 
procured it the French name of Mouflon a man- 
chettes, is the long hairs which garnish the anterior 
