Marco Polo's Sheep 



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Habits. — The mode of life of the Thian Shan race is doubtless identical 

 with that ot the typical O. poll. SevertzofF writes as follows : — " Oiv'j- 

 karcHin., like other sheep, does not live exclusively amongst the rocks, as 

 is the case with the different species of Cnpra. It is not satisfied, like the 



Fig. 39. — A dead male of Marco Polo's Sheep. From a photograph by Mr. David T. Hanburv. 



latter, with small tufts ot grass growing in the cletts of rocks, but requires 

 more extensive feeding-grounds ; it is therefore more easily driven from 

 certain districts than is the case with Capra. In the neighbourhood ot 

 Kopal, for instance, the goats are abundant in the central parts ot the 

 steppes of Kara, whilst the sheep have been partially driven from these 

 places, visiting them in autumn. On the southern ranges of the Semi- 

 rechinsk Altai, in the vicinity of the river Hi, wherever good meadows 



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