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MOUFLON, or MUFLON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUFLON, or MUFLON , the See also:wild See also:sheep (Ovis musimon) of See also:Corsica and See also:Sardinia, where it is now very See also:local. The ewes are either hornless or provided with quite small horns, the hornless See also:form being probably characteristic of one See also:island and the horned of the other. The rams carry See also:good horns, and in summer show a conspicuous See also:light See also:saddle-shaped See also:mark on the otherwise dark-coloured coat. The Armenian mouflon (0. orientalis), of See also:Persia, See also:Armenia, and the Troodos range of See also:Cyprus, is typically a larger and redder sheep, with the horns curving in the See also:reverse direction; but the See also:Cyprian See also:race is small. (See SHEEP.).

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