CAPRINE 87 



Ovis vignei cycloceros, Lydehher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 

 p. 172, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 101, 1907, The Sheep 

 and Its Cousins, p. 265, 1912 ; Ward, liecords of Big Game, 

 ed. 6, p. 408, 1910. 



Typical locality Salt IJaiige, Piinjal). 



Size relatively small, the shoulder-height Ijeirig al^out 



32 inches, and colour redder than in typical race. Horns of 



same general type as in latter, l)ut with the hasal girth 



usually ranging, in good specimens, from 8 to 10 inches; 



the curves nearly in one plane, and tending to form a 



circle. Iluft' strongly developed. 



Blanford * was the first to point out that the horns of 



the type of the true cydoccros differ in size from those of 



Punjab specimens. 



91. * * *. Skin, mounted. Salt Eange, Punjab. 



Purchased, 1891. 



G8. 9. 12. 36. Skin, mounted ; probably belonging to 



this race. Locality unknown. 



Frescnted hi/ the Zoological Society, 1868. 



56. 5. 6. 81. Skull, with horns. Salt Ptange. 



Presented hy Dr. T. Oldham, 1856. 



56. 5. 6. 82. Skull, with horns. Salt Eang^e. 



Same history. 



56. 5. 6. 83. Skull, with horns. Salt Eancre. 



Same history. 



56. 5. 6. 84. Skull, female. Salt Eange. Same history. 



44. 9. 30. 19. Skull, with horns, probably referable to 



this race. Salt Eange (?). 



Presented hy the Hon. East India Co., 1844. 



12. 3. 19. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Nishnapur, 



Punjab. Presented hy Major J. W. Watson, 1912. 



66. 8. 10. 3. Skull, probably referable to this race. 



Punjab (?). Presented hy Dr. Hugh Falconer, 1866. 



91. 8. 7. 171. Skull, with horns. Aklior Hills, north of 



Campbellpur, Punjab. 



Presented hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1891. 



91. 8. 7. 166. Skull, with horns. Salt Eange. 



Same history. 



91. 8. 7. 169. Skull, with horns. Salt Eange. 



Same liistory. 

 * Mainm. India, p. 458. 



