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not appear that this angulation can be attributed to immaturity, one of the 

 specimens being taller than the animal in which the front edges of the 

 horns are rounded off. This rounding of the horns cannot, therefore, be 

 taken as an invariable point of distinction between po/i /(v7;v//W, and po/i 

 typica. Neither, I think, can interioritv of size in the former be so regarded, 

 one of the specimens with angulated horns in the museum measuring 

 3 feet 8 inches at the shoulder, and thus considerably exceeding Mr. 

 Littledale's mounted example of the Pamir race. And I think it most 

 probable that in the Western Semirechinsk the two will be found to 

 intergrade completely. 



The Ovis sculptorum ot Blyth is founded on a single horn in the Museum 

 of the College ot Surgeons which was regarded both by Severtzoff and 

 Brooke as probably identical with the present form. And if such identity 

 could be definitely established, Blyth's name, as the earlier, should be 

 adopted. In the absence of any such certainty the name generally in use 

 has been retained tor the present. 



Now comes the question as to Ovis hcinsi^ named on the evidence or 

 skulls obtained from Tokmak, situated in the Southern Semirechinsk to 

 the north-west of the Issik Kul lake and to the north-east ot the Alexan- 

 drovski Mountains, and thus within what ought to be the range of the 

 present species. And, so far as the available evidence goes, I cannot see 

 how O. ht'insi can be differentiated trom the present race ot O. poll, and, at 

 any rate, that form cannot apparently he more than another race ot the 

 same species. 



Distribution. — Typically from the Alatau, but apparently extending over 

 the greater part of the Semirechinsk and Sapliski Altai to the Thian Shan 

 and south-west to the Narin river, where its range is said to overlap that of 

 O. poli typica. Tokmak and the Alexandrovski Mountains, the former of 

 which is the typical localitv for the so-called Ovis hciiisi, are included in 

 this area. 



