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the late Dr. Brandt, and stated to come from Siberia ; and secondly, from a 

 male in the summer coat shot by Mr. St. George Littledale in the Semip- 

 alatinsk Altai, and presented by him to the Museum. It is this second 

 specimen that forms the subject ot plate xiv. In addition to several skulls, 

 the Museum also possesses a mounted male head shot by Major C. S. 

 Cumberland in the district east of Semipalatinsk (about lat. 50" N., long. 

 88" E.), which has been described and figured by Mr. Blanford on page 

 787 of the Zoological Society's Proceedings tor 1896. This specimen, 

 which is in summer pelage and tully adult, exhibits in great perfection 

 the slight angulation of the bases of the horns and the numerous wrinkles 

 with deep grooves between them so characteristic of the species and race. 

 An adult skull also presented to the Museum by Major Cumberland, and 

 now mounted on the wall to the left of the large sheep-case, has the 

 front angles of the horns sharp, and it does not appear that this difference 

 can be accounted for by immaturity. 



The dimensions of the four largest pair of horns obtained by Major 

 Cumberland are as follows : — 



Length along Basnl ry.- ^ r^- 



r- . r^ „. , Tip to Tip. 



Front Curve. Circumference. ^ '^ 



564 i8i 33i 



S4| i8f ,30 



54i 19 35 



54i i9f 33f 



Distrihiition. — Imperfectly determined, but apparently in former times 

 extending from the Baikal Mountains in the south of Eastern Siberia 

 through Northern Mongolia to the Semipalatinsk Altai. In the latter 

 locality it is still abundant, and inhabits an undulating plateau at an 

 elevation of from 6000 to 10,000 feet above the sea-level ; but from the 

 greater part of Eastern Siberia it appears to have been exterminated and 

 driven south by the Cossacks. In Northern Mongolia it still survives ; and 

 to the eastward not improbably intergrades with the next race. In Siberia 



