CAPRINE 80 



Tyj)ical locality Elburz Eange, Persia. 



So far as can be judged from the head and neck, the 

 colour is less distinctly red tlian in the Cyprian and 

 Armenian races, while there is a distinct front outer angle 

 to the horns, and a strongly developed dark throat-ruff in 

 winter. The front surface of the horns is consequently 

 flatter than in the typical race, and distinctly defined from 

 the outer one. In all these respects this race approximates 

 to 0. vignei, in which " perversion " of the horns may occur 

 as an abnormality. Whether this race has a dark flank-band 

 is not apparent. 



4. 11. 18. 1. Mounted head (fig. 25). Southern flank of 

 Elburz Eange, Persia. Type. 



Presented hy the Hon. TV. Erdcine, 1904. 



F. — Ovls orientalis isphahanica. 



Ovis orientalis isphaganica, Nasonov, Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1910, 



plate facing, p. 702. 

 Ovis urmiana isphahanica, Nasonov, Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, 



p. 1290, 

 Ovis orientalis isphahanica, LydeJcJcer, The Sheej) and Its Cousins, 



p. 260, 1912. 



Typical locality Ispahan, Persia. 

 The only description is in Eussian. 

 No specimen in collection. 



IV. OVIS LAEISTANICA. 



Ovis laristanica, Naso7iov, Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1909, p. 1179, 

 1911, p. 1295, pi. ; LydeliTcer, The Sheej) and Its Cousins, p. 260, 

 1912. 



Typical locality Laristau, southern Persia. 



Horns normally homonymous. General colour of upper- 

 parts in winter (according to Nasonov) dark brownish yellow, 

 with a dark band across the shoulders, behind and parallel 

 to which is a wdiite band, and in front a whitish patch, thus 

 forming a kind of double saddle-patch. A blackish flank- 

 band dividing the dark area from the white of the belly. 

 Crown of head, forehead, and muzzle blackish ; a black streak 

 from eye to mouth, and l^elow this a narrower grey one ; 



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