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Sheep 



appears most probably that the Turkoman sheep is inseparable from the 

 race inhabiting the former districts. 



Distribution. — Typically the Salt Range of the Punjab, but extending to 

 the Cis-Indus Ranges of the Punjab and Sind, and thence into Afghanistan, 

 Southern Persia, and apparently Russian Turkestan. 



c. Kelat Race — Ovis vignei blaxfordi 



Ovis hlaiifordi, Hume, "Joitrn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlvi. p. 327, pi. iv. 

 (1887) ; P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1887, p. 639. 



C/iaj-acters. — Horns of male relatively large, with the two front angles 

 distinct, and the curve forming an open spiral, instead of lying almost or 

 quite in the same plane, as in the two preceding races ; the tips being thus 

 very much further apart tlian is the case in the latter. Pelage apparently 

 unknown. The tollowing dimensions ot the type specimen are given 

 by Mr. Hume, the figures in the second column indicating the corre- 

 sponding measurements of a fully adult skull of the Punjab race : — 



Length of horns along the curve 

 Basal circumference of same 

 Interval between tips 

 Greatest breadth of horn at base 

 (ireatest depth ot horn at base 



3j 



Distribution. — The neighbourhood of Kelat, in Northern Baluchistan. 



5. The Arcali — Ovis ammon 



Capra annnon,\J\wx\. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 97 (1766); Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 4S7 (1S29). 



O'cis argali, Pallas, Spici/. Zool. fasc. xi. p. 20 (1777-80) ; Blasius, 

 Sauget/iicrc Deittschlands, p. 468 (1857) ; Radde, Rcisc Ost.-Sihcr. p. 2^6 



