Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. Vulnerable. Bearded sheep, Ovis ornata. Taken from a print by Basan after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry of a live specimen in the French king's menagery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801.

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