WILD SHEEP. 
f 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Horns twisted spirally and pointing outwards. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ovis Ammon. O. cornibus arcuatis semicircularibus subtus pla- 
niusculis, palearibus laxis pilosis. Linn. Syst . 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 200. 
With arched semicircular horns, flat beneath $ 
the dewlaps loose and hairy. 
Capra orientalis. Cornibus supra rotundatis, 
infra pi an is, semicirculum referentibus. Briss. 
Regn. An. p. J\. n. 12. 
Musmon. Gesn. Quad. p. Q34. 
Ovis fera sibirica, vulgo Argali. Pall. Spic. 
Zool. 11. p. 3. pi. 1, 2. 
Wild Sheep. Penn. Hist. Quadr. 1 . p.44. Arct. Zool.l. p. 12. 
Shaw Gen. Zool. 2. p. 379. ph 201. Bew. 
Quadr. p. 64. Muflon. Sm. Buff. Q. p.205. 
pi. 1/2. 
The wild sheep, or argali, as it is named by the 
Kirgisian Tartars, is the primitive stock from whence 
the different kinds of domestic sheep have sprung. 
It is an inhabitant of the alpine regions of Siberia, 
and of the mountainous parts of Kamtschatka, where 
