. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . o selecting sitestor repose where, while practically invisible themselves, they can obtaina good view of their surroundings. Arui generally go about in smallparties ot four or five, not unfrequently a ewe being seen accompaniedonly by a pair of yearling lambs. In captivity they thrive well and breedfreely ; the lambs, of which there may be either one or two at a birth,being produced after a gestation of about one hundred and sixty davs. Itmay be noted that the coloration of the arui is almost identical with thatof the bubaline harte
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . o selecting sitestor repose where, while practically invisible themselves, they can obtaina good view of their surroundings. Arui generally go about in smallparties ot four or five, not unfrequently a ewe being seen accompaniedonly by a pair of yearling lambs. In captivity they thrive well and breedfreely ; the lambs, of which there may be either one or two at a birth,being produced after a gestation of about one hundred and sixty davs. Itmay be noted that the coloration of the arui is almost identical with thatof the bubaline hartebeest {Bubalis hoselaphiis) which inhabits the desertsof Northern x^frica, although it has now retreated south of the Atlas. Inthe edmi gazelle [Ga-zclla ci/vicri), which inhabits actually the samedistricts as the arui, the colour of the upper-parts is rather paler, while theunder-parts and much of the legs are white, and the tail-tip black. Boththe edmi and the arui assimilate so closely to their surroundings as to be Wild Oxen,Sheep,&;Goats Plate BHARAL, OR, BLUE SHEEP. PahUshed hfRoKiand, YlardLU Bharal 231 very difficult of detection. A sub-fossil cannon-bone from one of theFrench caverns has been referred to this species, but it seems extremelydoubtful it the determination is really correct. Although the arui is undoubtedly very distinct from all other wildsheep, perhaps even more so than the bharal, I cannot bring myself toregard it as worthy ot generic distinction. Its most aberrant features arethe mane ot long hairs on the fore-quarters, the length of the tail, and therelatively large size of the horns in the female. iii. PsEUDoviNE Group—Sub-Genus Pseudois Psei/ifois, Hodgson, youni. As. Soc. Bengdl, vol. xv. p. 343 (1846) ; Gray,Cat. Vnguhita Brit. Mas. p. 177 (1852). Characters.—Horns of males forming an S-shaped curve, rounded orsubquadrangular at the base, nearly smooth, without distinct transversewrinkles ; those of females small. No face-glands, or pits
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