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Speke, who, upon seeing the present animals in the Gardens, at once 
declared them to be very different from those which he had himself 
pursued and shot in the higher regions of Little Thibet. There 
seems to be little doubt that Mr. Blyth’s original name, Ovis vignii, 
comprehends both species. He associates together under the 
same scientific appellation ‘the Sid”? (Shapoo) “ of Little Thibet,”’ 
and the “ Koch of the Sulimani range between India and Khoras- 
san*.’’ His description is perhaps rather referable to the latter, 
being the animal which we have alive in our Gardens. NowI think 
that the name Ovis vignii should be restricted to the Tibetan animal 
for two reasons: first, because the Sheep discovered by Mr. Vigne 
in “ Little Tibet, where the river breaks through the chain of the 
Himalayast,” and dedicated to its discoverer by Mr. Blyth, was doubt- 
less the Shdpoo ; secondly, because the other animal, the Koch, or 
Oorial of the Sulimani range, has already been well described by, and 
received another scientific name from, Capt. Hutton; so that by this 
course the objectionable necessity of proposing a new name is ob- 
viated. 
I now proceed to endeavour to show the differences between these 
two species :-— 
1. Ovis vientr. The Shapoo. (Pl. LXXIX.) 
Ovis vignit, Blyth, P. Z.S. 1840, p. 70; Ann. N. H. vii. p. 251; 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. x. p. 873 (partim); Horsfield, Cat. Mus. 
E. I. C. p. 175 (specimen A, from Strachey’s collection); Gray’s 
Cat. Ungulata in Brit. Mus. (1852) p. 172; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, 
p- 526 (partim).—Shé of Little Thibet (Blyth).—Shapoo of the 
Tibetans (Speke). 
Male.—Horns subtriangular, rather compressed laterally, rounded 
* P. Z.S. 1840, p. 70. + P. Z. S. 1840, p. 72. 
