208 JOURNAL. BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



From the above list it will be seen that the Society has a fairly good founda- 

 tion on which to build up a really good collection of horns if Members will only 

 help. 



In many species, Sambar, Urial, Ibex and Markhor especially, the heads are 

 not by any means up to the standard they ought to be, and in these species also, 

 several of the local races are entirely wanting in the collection. This should 

 not be the case considering the number of the Society's Members who have 

 shot or do shoot in the districts inhabited by these animals. 



It is hoped that in giving the following list of wants of the Society, Members 

 may see their way to help us to get together a really fine collection of heads 

 from India and the neighbouring countries. At the same time, we should like 

 to point out that not only heads are wanted, but also skins which in many cases 

 are needed to distinguish the local races. Whether, in all cases, these local 

 races really hold good has not been proved, and Members by sending in carefully 

 located specimens would always be helping to test them. 



Frequently on their shooting expeditions sportsmen must come across horns 

 of animals, which have either been wounded or killed by carnivorous animals ; 

 these, if good specimens, we are always glad to have, especially females of the 

 different kinds of sheep and goats, this being the only way one can hope to 

 obtain them. 



LIST OF WANTS. 



Gayal or M.ii\i-An {Bos frontalis) Assam. 



Yak {Bos gruunietis) Tibet. 



Hodgson's Sheep {Ovis ammon hodgsoni) Tibet and Ladak. 



Urial {Ovis vignei) As tor and Ladak. 



Baluchi Urial (Ovis vignei blanfordi") Baluchistan. 



Salt-Range Urial (Ow/s Vi'fl'we/ cycloceros) Salt-Range and other Cis 



Indus disti-icts of the 

 Punjab. 



Kopet-Dagh Urial {Ocis vignei arhaV) Persia and Turkestan. 



Bharal or Blue sheep {Ovis nahura) Tibet and Himalayas. 



Sind Wild Goat (Capra hircus blythi) Sind and Baluchistan. 



Persian Wild Goat {Capra Jiircus aegagrus) Persia. 



Baltistan Ibex {Capra sibirica wardi) Baltistan. 



Himalayan Ibex {Capra sibirica sacin) Zoji-la (between Kashmir 



and Dras). 



Markhor {Capra falconer/) Astorand Baltistan Range. 



Pir Panjal'Markhor {Capra falconer! cashmirensis) Pir Pan jal northwards into 



Hazara and Chilas. 

 Soleman Markhor {Capra falconeri megaceros)... Suleman Range. 

 Cabul Mavkhov {Capra falconer/ jerduni) Northern Afghanistan. 



