20 2 Sheep 



and rocky places are found, Ovis karelini occurs at elevations of from 2000 

 to 3000 feet ; at the sources of the rivers Lepsa, Sarkau, Kora, Karatala, and 

 Koksa it goes as high as 10,000 feet, and even to 12,000 feet in the 

 neighbourhood of the Upper Narin. In winter it is found at much lower 

 elevations." 



In the Field of 5th November 1898 Capt. R. B. Cobbold writes that 

 owing to rinderpest, which has raged throughout the winter all over 

 the Pamirs, Oiv> /":///" has, for the time being, become practically extinct. 

 All over the Russian Pamirs, and in the Taghdumbash also, hundreds 

 of dead animals may be seen ; and in nullas where last October I 

 saw hundreds, in July last there were only skeletons. On the Tagh- 

 dumbash the rinderpest has not been so severe as on the Russian side ; but 

 large heads, owing to the numbers that have been shot by British sports- 

 men, are few and far between. The nullas in Chinese territory which hold 

 poll are in the north, the nullas near the Karaart Pass at the head ot the 

 Kuntemis river ; but there is no head of 50 inches in any ot them. 

 Farther south in the Taghdumbash, the Kungerab, Oprang, Bayik, 

 Kukturuk, and two nullas near Bozai Gumbaz, still hold a few small 

 heads ; but I saw no head of 50 inches in any of them this summer. The 

 big heads I killed last autumn, and which were latelv mentioned in the 

 Fields were killed in the neighbourhood of the Bayik Pass ; and at that 

 time large males were numerous on the Russian and Chinese side ot that 

 pass, but they have literally died in hundreds." 



Incert^ Sedis 



Ovis nigrimontana 



Ovis nigrimontana, Severtzoff, Tmns. Soc. Moscoii, vol. viii. art. 2, 

 p. 154 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1875, p. 517 ; W. L. Sclater. Cat. 

 Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 132 (1891). 



