Marco Polo's Sheei 



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O. amiiiou^ and the build perhaps rather lii2;hter. General characters very 

 similar to those ot the latter, but the horns thinner and frequently longer. 

 Horns of adult male long, slender, and forming more than a complete circle; 

 typically the front angles well developed, the wrinkles on the front surface 

 placed rather far apart at the base of the horns, and those on the lateral 

 surface frequently but slightlv developed. Hair of summer pelage longer 

 than in O. cii/iiuoii ; general colour of upper-parts of adult male in summer 



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Fig. 37. — Head ot Pamir race ot Marco Polo's Sheep. From a specimen in the possession of 

 Mr. David T. Haiiburv. 



pelage light speckled brown ; most or all of face, throat, chest, under-parts, 

 buttocks, and legs white, the white extending largely on to the outer 

 surface of the thighs ; a black streak from the nape to the withers ; no 

 distinct ruft on the throat. In winter the hair considerably longer, and 



' Major C. S. Cumberland, as quoted by Mr. Rowland Ward, states that this sheep grows to 4 feet 

 at the shoulder, but Mr. Blanford, in his latest memoir on that species, speaks of O. atnmon being probably 

 the larger animal ot the two, and I cannot find any record of its exceeding 4 feet. Mr. Littledale's 

 male of O. lunmoii in the British Museum measures about 3 feet 9 inches as mounted, his po/i 3 feet 

 5 inches, and his Hiircnsu 3 teet 2 inches ; but there may have been some shrinkage in the skins. 



