Ovts. A431 
are moderately thick, with rather rounded edges ; frontal surface very 
prominent, orbital surface rather flat, narrowing only in the last third of 
its length. The horns are three times as long as the skull. The basal 
and terminal axis of the horns rise parallel with each other; the median 
axis parallel with the axis of the skull. The neck is covered by a white 
mane, shaded with greyish-brown. The light brown of the back and 
sides is separated from the yellowish-white of the belly by a wide dark 
line. The light brown of the upper parts gets gradually lighter towards 
the tail, where it becomes greyish-white, but does not form a sharply 
marked anal disc. On the back there is a sharply marked dark line 
running from the shoulders to the loins. I did not find any soft hair 
under the long winter hair in October.” 
S1zeE.—Height at the shoulder, 3 feet 6 inches; length of the horns, 
from 44 to 45 inches. 
The following is a description by Dr. Stoliczka of this animal, which 
-Horns of Ovis Karelinz. 
he took to be Ovis Polii, and described it as such in the ‘P. Z. S.’ for 
1874, page 425. In the same volume is a plate which, however, is 
shewn by Mr. Blanford (‘Sc. Res. Second Yarkand Mission,’ p. 83) to 
be inaccurate :— 
“ Male in winter dress—General colour above hoary brown, dis- 
tinctly rufescent or fawn on the upper hind neck and above the 
shoulders, darker on the loins, with a dark line extending along the 
ridge of tail to the tip. Head above and at the sides a greyish-brown, 
darkest on the hind head, where the central hairs are from four to five 
inches long, while between the shoulders somewhat elongated hairs 
indicate a short mane. Middle of upper neck hoary white, generally 
tinged with fawn; sides of body and the upper part of the limbs 
shading from brown to white, the hair becoming more and more tipped 
with the latter colour. Face, all the lower parts, limbs, tail, and all the 
hinder parts, extending well above towards the loins, pure white. 
“The hairs on thé lower neck are very much lengthened, being from 
