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wrinkles, which are often retained at the tips of adult specimens. The horns of females 
are somewhat smaller, but of much the same form. 
General colour of head, upper parts, outer surface of limbs, and tail uniform rufous 
tawny, becoming rather darker on the mane; ears, chin, middle of under parts, 
and inner surfaces of limbs dull whitish ; a few dark bars on the long hair of the 
neck. Horns yellowish brown, becoming darker in old animals. 
Menagerie specimens show a much greater profusion of long hair on the fore¬ 
quarters than is found in animals liring in a wild state. 
In the characters of the skull and horns the Arui, or Barbary Sheep, approaches 
the Goats, but the transverse wrinklings in the horns is an ovine character. The length 
of the tail is a feature unknown in the Goats, and at first sight might seem to affiliate 
this species with the domesticated breeds of sheep, from which the Arui is, however, 
widely separated by the absence of face-glands and the form and structure of the 
horns. In the large size of the horns in the female the species is unlike any other 
sheep or goat. 
Mr. Howland Ward gives the greatest size of the horns from a specimen from 
Algeria: length along outer curve 28-| inches, basal circumference II^, tip to tip I8|. 
Distribution. Mountains of North Africa, southern arid slopes in sight of the desert, 
and in Egypt. 
Mr. Beadnell writes about the Barbary Sheep :—“ Dr. Schweinfurth says that the 
only locality for this animal he knows is in the country east of Minieh. When he 
was at the well of El Gos, in AVadi El Gos, he was given two perfect skulls of this 
wild sheep by the Arabs, which evidently belonged to animals killed only a few weeks 
before. These heads are now in the Berlin Museum.” 
Dr. Schweinfurth himself wrote to Dr. Anderson in 1893 to the same effect; the 
locality was then mentioned as “ Wadi Gossal, south-east of Assiut.” 
Native name ‘ Kebsh.’ 
General Sir Archibald Hunter took much trouble to obtain a specimen of this wild 
sheep for Dr. Anderson, but was only successful in procuring a leg, which was picked 
up in the Dongola district. Specimens were also seen which had been shot at Sarras. 
Mr. E. N. Buxton found a horn of this sheep at the rocky base of a mountain 
(1800 feet high) near the Wadi Medisa. This mountain is indicated in Mr. E. A. 
Eloyer’s map, published in the ‘Proceedings of the Geographical Society ’ for 1887, a 
little to the south-east of Ain Yessar, and directly west of the Three Yessars 
(2520 feet). The specimen is the sheath of the right horn of a male, and is pale 
yellowish sandy in colour, and the side that lay uppermost is worn and cracked and in 
holes. It measures 59 cm. along the outer curve, and 43 cm. along the inner curve. 
Mr. Buxton has published, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ 1890, 
p. 361, some excellent notes on the habits of this animal as observed in the Atlas 
Mountains of Algeria.—W. E. de W. 
