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below the knees and hocks, as well as a small caudal disk in males, dirty 

 white. The upper surface ot the root of the tail has a dark mark ; and 

 the caudal disk and white on the legs are less developed than in either of 

 the preceding races, the fawn of the hind -legs sometimes extending 

 completely round them above the hocks. In old males, probably in 



Fig. 34. — Head of male Tibetan Argali. From a specimen shot by Col. Wade-Daltoii. 

 (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) 



summer coat,^ the back becomes grizzled, owing to the admixture of white 

 with the brown hairs. The ewes have little or no mane, less of white on 

 the limbs, and the caudal disk much more indistinct. 



The following are some ot the largest horn-measurements of this race 

 given by Mr. Rowland Ward in the edition of 1896: — 



' Mr. Blanford suggests that this sheep is darker in ^llnlmcr than in winter, but this is certainly 

 not so in the case of old rams. 



