2^2 



Sheei 



Ovis hiirr/h'/, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 67, Aiui. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. I, vol. vii. p. 248 (1841), Jouni. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. x. p. 868 (1841). 



Ovis na/uira. Gray, List Ma mm. Brit. Mus. p. 170 (1843) '■< Jerdon, 

 Mamm. India, p. 296 (1867) ; Blanford, Joiirii. As. Soc. Bciiga/, vol. xli. 

 p. 40 (1872), Tarkand Miss. — Mamm. p. 85, pi. xiv. (1879), Fauna Brit. 

 India — Mamm. p. 499 (1891); Sterndale, M^/ww. India, p. 438 (1884); 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 253 (1896). 



Pseiidois na/ioor, Hodgson, Joiirn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv. p. 343 (1846), 

 xvi. p. 702 (1847) ; Horsfield, Cat. E. Ind. Mus. p. 176 (1851) ; Gray, 

 Knoii's/ey Menagerie, p. 40 (1850), Cat. Ungu/ata Brit. Mus. p. 177 (1852), 

 Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 133 (1872) ; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, 

 p. 527; Lydekker, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlix. p. 131 (1880); 

 Prezewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 16 (1887). 



Musimon nalioor, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii. p. 191 (1855). 



Pseudois burrhel, Prezewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 16 (1887). 



Pseudois naliura, Nathusius, Zool. Anzeiger, 1888, p. T^i,^ ; Langkavel, 

 Zool. Garten, vol. xxx. p. 298 (1889). 



Plate XIX. 



Characters. — Size medium, the height at the shoulder being about 

 3 feet. Head long and narrow ; hair ot uniform length throughout, show- 

 ing no trace of either mane or ruff; ears short; horns of adult males 

 rounded or subquadrangular at the base, nearly smooth, with the distinct 

 transverse wrinkles of the more typical sheep replaced by widely separated 

 sinuous lines of growth and also by fine stri;c, arising close together, curv- 

 ing outwards, at first upwards, then downwards, and finally backwards, so 

 that the tips, which are inclined inwards, are situated over the withers. In 

 females the horns are short, curved slightly upwards and outwards, and 

 suboval in section, with their longer diameter transverse to the head. 



