as it fell, and hit the rocks 400 feet below with a dull scrunching thud,
breaking one of the massive horns short off, and converting the hindquarters
into a shapeless, bleeding pulp.”
In the course of .about a day and a halfs shooting no less than nine
adult bighorn rams were bagged bÿ Dr. Guillemard’s party.
ii. A m m o t r a g in e G roop|S |Sub - G enu s 'A m m o t r a g u s
Ammotragus, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18407 p. 1 3 ; Gray, Knowsley
Menagerie, p, 46 (1850), Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 179 (1852).
Characters.—Horns of males of the same general type as in the next
group, but transversely wrinkled when immature ; those of females large.
No face-glands, and no pits in the skull for their reception. Colour
uniformly tawny throughout. A fringe Ig7 long hair on the throat, chest,
and upper portion of fore-legs. Tail much longer than in any other
member of the genus,-and with long hair on its lower half.
Distribution.—Northern Africa.
T he A r u i ; iSr A fr ic a n - She^ ^ S P vis e è r v ia
Antilope lervia, Pallas, Spicil Zool. fasc. xii. p.Sjj2 (1777).
Ovis tragelaplpis, Cuvier, Règne Animal, vol, i. p. 268 (1817) ;
Desmarest, Mammalogk, vol. ii.- p. 486 (1822); H. Smith, in Griffith!)
Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 319, v. p. -359 (1827) ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit.-
Mus. p. 169 (1843) > Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix. p. 288
(1885) ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 14 1 (1891) ;
Ward, Records o f Big Game, p. 237:111896).
Ovis ornata, I. Geoffroy, Descrip. Egypte—Hist. Nat. vol. ii. p. 742, pi.
vii. (1833).
Ovis {Ammotragus) tragelaphus, Blyth, Proc, Zool. SoC. 1840, pp. 13
and 76.