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THE MAMMALS OE E&TPT. 
OVIS. 
Ovis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. 1758, p. 70. 
The Sheep are distinguished from the Goats {Capra) in having glands between the 
hoofs of both fore and hind feet, and frequently also on the face below the eyes. The 
males have no distinct beard on the chin and are free from rank odour. 
The description of the animal is taken almost entirely from ‘ Oxen, Sheep, and 
Goats of All Lands,’ in which the specific features of a recent wild-killed specimen 
from Tunisia are given. 
OviS LEEVIA, Pall. 
^‘FishtalL^ or ^'Lervee,” Shaw, Travels, 1738, p. 243. 
AntiJope lervia, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. 1777, fasc. xii. p. 12. 
“ Mouflon a Manchettes,’^ Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, 1818, pi. vii. fig. 2. 
Ovis tragelaphis, Desna. Manana. 1822, p. 486; Riipp. Neue Wirb. Abyss. 1835, pp. 17, 26; 
Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxxix. 1885, p. 288; Buxton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 361 
(Algeria); Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 85 (Egypt); Ward, Eecords of Big Game, 1896, 
p. 257. 
Ovis ornata, Audouin, E. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, ii. 1829, p. 742; id. ibid. ed. 8vo, 1828, xxiii. 
p. 201. 
JEgoceros tragelapTxus, Heugl. Faun. Both. Meer., Peterm. Mittb. 1861, p. 16. 
Ammotragus tragelaphus, Fitz. SB. Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 604; Hartmann, Zeitscbr. Ges. Erdk. 
Berlin, iii. 1868, p. 346. 
Ovis lervia, Lydekker, Oxen, Sheep, and Goats of All Lands, 1898, p. 226, pi. xviii.; Johnston, in 
Great and Small Game of Afr. 1899, p. 126. 
Size comparatively large, the height at the shoulders being about 3 feet 3 inches. 
Withers relatively high, and hind-quarters low. Head rather long, without face- 
glands below the eyes, and no pits in the skull for their reception; ears relatively 
large. Hair of the chin quite short, a little longer hair on the sides of the jowl and 
angles of the lower jaw. A short upright mane extending from the nape of the neck 
to the middle of the back. In males a heavy fringe of very long and perfectly straight 
hair commencing on the throat and continued down the front of the neck to split on 
the chest and terminate on the front of the base of each fore leg; thence after a short 
interval it is continued on the front and outer surface of the leg to a short distance above 
the knees, below which the hairs depend. Tail long, tufted in its terminal half, and 
reaching to within about 5 inches of the hocks. In females the pendent hair is sparser 
and shorter. 
Horns of adult males massive, pretty evenly bowed outwards and upwards, then 
downwards and inwards, with a distinct keel in the middle of the front surface at the 
base; in young specimens the whole horn is marked with prominent sinuous transverse 
