. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 3S6 UNGULATA is the Himalayan Argali (0. hodgsoni), having massive and strongly curved horns, with bold ridges, like those of the true Argali. Indeed, were it not for their isolated areas there would appear to be no grounds for distinguishing these two closely allied forms, and it is not improbable that they are really identical. 0. brookei appears to have been founded on a hybrid between 0. hodgsoni and 0. vignei. In the same districts, and also in Southern Ladak, there occurs the Bharal (0. nahura), with smaller, smoother
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 3S6 UNGULATA is the Himalayan Argali (0. hodgsoni), having massive and strongly curved horns, with bold ridges, like those of the true Argali. Indeed, were it not for their isolated areas there would appear to be no grounds for distinguishing these two closely allied forms, and it is not improbable that they are really identical. 0. brookei appears to have been founded on a hybrid between 0. hodgsoni and 0. vignei. In the same districts, and also in Southern Ladak, there occurs the Bharal (0. nahura), with smaller, smoother, and more spreading horns. Passing in a south-westerly direction we find a series of smaller forms, 0. vignei of Ladak, 0. cydoceros of Northern ^^^-'^. Fig. 146.—The Moufflon (0» s musimon). From a living animal in Zoological Gardens. India, Persia, and Baluchistan, 0. gmelini of Asia Minor and Persia 0. ophion, confined to the elevated pine-clad Troodos Mountains of the island of Cyprus, and said at the time of the British occupa- tion in 1878 to have been reduced to a flock of about twenty-five individuals, and 0. musimon, the Moufiion of Corsica and Sardinia (see Pig. 146), believed to have been formerly also a native of Spain. In the three latter species the females are hornless. Lastly, we have the somewhat aberrant. Goat-like Aoudad (0. tragelaphus) of the great mountain ranges of North Africa, in which, as already mentioned, the skull and horns resemble those of the Bharal although the tail is longer, and there is a thick fringe of lono- hair on the throat, chest, and fore legs. '^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, A. and C. Black
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