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Ovis amraon jubata, Lydelxher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 180, 

 1898, Great and Small Game of India, etc. p. 12G, 1901, The 

 Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 271, 1912; Ward, Becords of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 402, 1910. 



(?) Ovis argali dauricus, Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Mosco7v,\o\.\iu, 

 art. 2, p. 87, pi. iv, 1873. 



(?) Ovis darivini, Przeivalski, Reisen in Tibet, 268, 1879-80. 



Typical locality the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. 



An imperfectly known race in some respects intermediate 

 between aininon and hodgsoni, the horns, although less 

 "nipped in" by the sides of the face, having their front 



Fig. 29. — Skull akd Horns of Mongolian Argali 



[Ovis amnion mongolica). 



From a specimen collected by Col. Abbot Anderson. 



angles rounded off, as in the former, wdiile the throat carries 

 a heavy ruft' like that of the latter. In the few horns of 

 which measurements have been recorded the lenj^th ranges 

 from 41 to 50 J inches, and the girth from IGJ to 18 inches. 

 No specimen in collection. 



C— Ovis ammon hodgrsoni. 



Ovis nayaur, Hodgson, Asiat. Research, vol. xviii, pt. 2, p. 135, 1833, 



in part. 



Ovis hodgsoni, Bhjth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 65; Sclatcr, ibid. 

 1860, p. 129 ; Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, 

 pp. 151 and 154, 1873 ; Broohe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 520 ; 

 Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 427, 1884 ; Pousargucs, Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1898, p. 148 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Lid. Mus. 



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