Also, we met many English sportsmen tramping and camping among the mountains in search of the "moufflon," a kind of mountain wild sheep, which, at a short distance, looks very like a donkey with big ram's horns on its head. ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)
One would like to know whether there was any connection between the frequent representations of moufflon and ibex on the one hand and of female figurines on the other. ❋ Jan (2008)
Of the rich metal finds from Hissar III we reproduce p. 43 here only a drawing of a moufflon head, one of five, made of gold foil and intended to be sewn on to some sort of textile. ❋ Jan (2008)
The island is home to a number of mammals such as the Cyprus moufflon (Ovis orientalis ophion), which is a rare type of wild sheep found only on the island of Cyprus. ❋ Unknown (2007)
However, moufflon overgraze the higher parts of the massif where the flora is poor, leading to the decline of high altitude plant species and an increase in inedible species. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) and moufflon (Ammotragus lervia) were recently documented in the Jebel Uweinat portion of the ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The fauna of Shikahogh has not been explored completely but studies have already revealed rare species of animals such as leopards, bezoar, moufflon, bear, snowcock and vipers among others. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Deledda thought that the best Christmas gift she ever got was a moufflon, the shorthaired grayish-brown or russet wild sheep native to Sardinia and Corsica. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And he had got back the wild moufflon, which had run away when he was attacked. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It then became a question with us whether we should return with them, or pursue tho mountain tracks to Nuoro, whence it was only two days 'journey to the foot of Monte Genargentu, on the higher regions of which it had been our intention to hunt the _moufflon_, proceeding then, along byroads, through a chain of mountain villages to Cagliari. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
If, too, his comrade should fail in climbing to the vast solitudes in which the bounding _moufflon_ harbours, there were boar hunts in the prospect for him; not such courtly pageants as one sees in the pictures of Velasquez, but more stirring, and in nobler covers. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
The heath sheep -- the little, contented, weather-hardened grazing sheep of the Lüneburg and other heaths -- belong to one of the oldest species, and their tails are as short and their horns as dark as those of the moufflon. ❋ Various (N/A)
Stories about the ouadad or moufflon may be disregarded, for this animal is only found in the passes of the Atlas Mountains, miles beyond the forest's boundaries. ❋ S.L. Bensusan (N/A)
The _moufflon_ goes in troops of from four to twenty. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
Mule having now achieved that glorious _libertà_, the instinctive aspiration of Corsican existence, whether man, mule, or moufflon, started forward alone, my friend following, I have no doubt, in rather a thundering rage. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
There are full-grown specimens of the _moufflon_ in the Zoological ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
Well, when the poodle had been given to them by a soldier who was going back to his home in Piedmont, he had been a white woolly creature a year old, and the children's mother, who was a Corsican by birth, had said that he was just like a _moufflon_, as they call sheep in Corsica. ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)
It is fourfold the weight of the Mediterranean moufflon. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Large tracts were preserved for him for ibex and moufflon on the mountains, and antelope on the plains, and the hawking of duck or partridge on by-days. ❋ Thomas Edward Gordon (1873)
