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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



12. 10. 31. 6b. Skull, with horns. Salt Kange. Length 

 of horns 33 J, gh*th 9j, tip-to-tip interval 12 J inches. This 

 is the second best nrial definitely known to be from the 

 Salt Bange in Ward's list ; the horn-length in the best 

 being 34 inches. Bequeathed hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1912. 



C— Ovis vigfnei cycloceros. 



Ovis cycloceros, Hulton, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. ii, p. 514 ; 

 Thomas, Trans. Linn. Soc. — Zool. ser. 2, vol. v, p. 63, 1890. 



Ovis blanfordi, Hume, Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlvi, p. 327, 

 pi. iv, 1887 ; Hclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 639. 



Ovis vignei blanfordi, Lyde'k'ker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 174, 

 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 100, 1907, The Sheep and 

 Its Cousins, p. 264, 1912, Cat. Huyne Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 10, 

 1913 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 408, 1910. 



Typical locality Afghanistan. 



Size probably medium. Horns tending to turn outwards 

 at the tips, and forming a more open spiral than in the other 



Fig. 26. — Skull and Horns of Afghan Ueial {Ovis vignei cycloceros). 



races, with the front angles prominent and occasionally 

 showing a bended structure ; basal girth in good specimens 

 from 10 to 12^ inches. 



The urial of Waziristan and the Trans-Indus districts 



