(f) The Seling, a native of Nepal.
(g) The Curumbar sheep of Mysore.
(h) The sheep called Garar in India.
(i) The Dukhun sheep.
(j) The Shaymbliar sheep of Mysore.
(k) The broad-tailed sheep (0. laticaudatus, Erxl., Geoff., Mem. Egypt, Lesson, Comp. Buffon, x. p. 812 ; O. laticauda, Platyceros Arabica, Linn.; O. Turcica, Charlet ; O. cauda obesa, Ludolf). It is a native of Barbary. There are several forms of this variety, of which the following are most prominent :—Thefat-rumped sheep (0. steatopyga, Pallas, the Tartarian sheep of Bewick) ; the Persian sheep (0. A. caudatus, Geoff.); the fat tailed sheep (O. A. macrocercus, Schreb.); the Aora fiyel, or Abyssinian sheep ; the Bucharian sheep (0. Bucharica, Pallas); the Tibetan sheep (0. Tibetanus, Fischer); the Cape sheep (0. Capensis, Erxleb.); the sheep of Belkah.
(l) Many-horned sheep (0. polyceratus, Linn.). It is also called the four-horned ram, and the Dumba sheep. It is a native of Nepal.
(m) The Puchia, or Hindustan Dumba (O. Hodgson).
(n) Caprovis vignei. This genus embraces the Sha or Koch. It is the mountain sheep of the north of India, and is found in Tibet.
Ovis cycloceros, Hutton, Sclater, Blyth.
O. Vignei, Big. , in part. Uria, ITrial, Koch, Such, PANJ.
The Panjab wild sheep is found all over the Salt Range of the Panjab, the Sulimani range, the Hazara, Peshawur. Mr. Blyth has pointed out that Captain Hutton's Ovis cycloceros had been priorly named by him Ovis Vignei.
Ovis cylindricornis, Blyth, a species of the Caucasus. This is the least satisfactorily estab lished of all the species in Mr. Blyth's mono graph, resting on a communication from Colonel Hamilton Smith, relative to a species which must have been very different from either of those known to Mr. Blyth, though described from memory only by Colonel II. Smith, one of the most experienced of zoologists in the history of the rwuinantia.
Ovis Gmelini, Blyth, a sheep of Armenia, identified with a species long ago rudely figured by the younger Gmelin, and the horn by Pale; ; and Ginelin's description of the habits quoted, with further original information. Head figured in Taylor's plate, No. 9.
Ovis musimon, Linn., the wild monition sheep of Corsica and Sardinia. Described by Mr. Blyth
from life, and a further notice given in J. A. S., x. p. 878.
Ovis nahura, Hodgs,, Blyth.
O. nahoor, Hodgson. 1 O. burliel, Myth.
Blue wild sheep, . ENG. Na, Sna, LADAK, TIBET. Burhel, Mara!, . Hurst. Nervate, . . . NEPAL. ltharur,. . . „ Wa, War, . . SUTLEJ.
Mends (male), . . „ Valley of the Sutlej, Bhotan. De scribed from specimens, amongst which was a hornless female, and clearly established as distinct from O. amnion.
Ovis Pohl, Blyth, Hass ; Roosh of Pamir ; found on the plains of Pamir at 16,000 feet. Founded on a magnificent frontlet and horns brought by Lieutenant Wood from the Pamir steppe, combined with the notice quoted from Marco Polo, which refers undeniably to the same animal. Of the distinctness of this superb species, there can be no doubt whatever ; and the frontlet is figured in Taylor's plate, figs. 1 and 2. It is to the east of Bokhara. The horns of one specimen were 2? feet long, round the curvature, and 14+ inches in circumference at the base.
Ovis tragelaphus, Pallas, Aondad of the Moors, found on the Atlas mountains of N. Africa. A well-known species.
Ovis Blyth, Indian wild sheep.
O. montane, I Sha, LAD., TM.
Found in the Hindu Kush, the Pamir Range, west from Ladakh to the Caspian Sea. It is more like a deer than the moufflon of Europe. It is active and courageous. — Jerdon's Mammalia ; Gray's Catalogue ; Hooker, i. p. 244 ; Blyth in Bengal As. Soc. Journ. ; Adam's Naturalist in India ; Jerdon, Darwin.
OWAIS-bin- IR never saw Mahomed, but he so loved and revered that reformer, that he caused two of his front teeth to be extracted, because Mahomed had lost two of his front teeth in the disastrous battle of Ohod. Owais affirmed that all who entered his society and per formed the mortifications enjoined upon them, would have these two teeth miraculously extracted during sleep, and on awakening find them under their pillows. The example set by him was followed by the khalifs Abubakr and Ali ; and to the associations of recluses created by them all the various orders of darvesh which are now scattered over Muhammadan countries, trace back their origin.—Osborn's Islam, p. 92.