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1879, and is now in the Indian Museum, measures over sixty-seven 
inches from base to tip along the curve, with a circumference at base 
of sixteen inches and a width from tip to tip in a straight line of fifty- 
three inches; one in the British Museum measures sixty-three inches, 
but is wider in its spread, being fifty-four inches across at the tips. 
Major Biddulph, who presented the head to our museum, remarked 
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Ovis Politi, 
that the strength of the neck muscles must be enormous to allow of so 
great a weight being easily carried, and it was doubtless owing to this 
weight that the Ovis Polit and other great sheep that he had observed 
had a very erect carriage, which has also been noticed by others of the 
Ovis Ammon. 
I have never se€n this animal in the flesh, and can only therefore 
