1 88 Sheep 



Of the sheep described by Severtzoff, O. /w/'/isi and O. nigrimotitana were 

 named on the evidence of skulls alone. The former was obtained much 

 more west than Mr. Littledale's sheep, coming from Tokmak, situated in 

 the Southern Semirechinsk, between the Alexandrovski Mountains and the 

 Alatau, and therefore within the distributional area of O. poli, of which, at 

 most, it probably forms a race. O. nigrimontami^ on the other hand, is from 

 a point much south of the habitat ot the present form, coming from the 

 Karatau, or Black Mountains, lying to the south-west of Kulja,^ and east 

 of the Alatau. Living specimens seen at a distance by its describer are 

 stated to have shown a white caudal disk and under-parts ; and the sniall 

 length of the horns in the type specimen (:58 inches) is suggestive of 

 affinitv with the amnion type. 



7. i\1akco Polo's Shekp — Ovis poli 



Ovis po/i, Blyth, Proc Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 62, .-Jnn. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. I, vol. vii. p. 195, pi. v. (1841); Severtzoff, Trans. Soc. Mosro//, 

 vol. viii. art. 2, pp. 150 and 154, pis. ii. and iii. (1873) ; Stoliczka, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 425, pi. liii. ; Brooke, ihiJ. 1875, p. ^14; Biddulph, 

 ibid. p. 157, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1879, p. 280; Scully, Proc. Zool. S 

 1 88 1, p. 209; Blanford, ibid. 1884, p. 326, Fauna Brit. India — AL 

 p. 496 (1891) ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Manini. bid. Miis. pt. ii. p. 133 (1891); 

 De Poncins, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. \. p. ^], (1^95) ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, p. 240 (1896). 



(.?) Ovis arkar, P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 89. 



Plate XVL 

 Characters. — Height at shoulder probably only slightly less than in 



' All these places arc shown in Map 77 ot" the Times Atlas. 



'OC. 



a mm. 



