434 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
animals. (A most valuable map of the country is published in the 
‘ Journal’ with this paper. ) 
The chief difference between this species and Ovis Polit consists in 
the much greater length and divergence of horns of the latter and the 
longer hair on the neck. 
No. 441. Ovis BROOKEI. 
Brookes Wild Sheep. 
Hapitat.—Ladakh, or probably the Kuenluen range north of Ladakh, 
DESCRIPTION.—This species is founded on a single specimen, which, 
in the opinion of Mr. Blyth, Mr. Edwin Ward, F.Z.S., Sir Victor Brooke 
and others, differed materially from all other wild sheep, but, as they 
had only a head to go upon, further investigation in this direction is 
Ovis Brooke. 
necessary. It is not even certain where the animal was shot, but it is 
believed to have been obtained in the vicinity of Leh in Ladakh. It is 
apparently allied to the O. Ammon of Thibet, which Sir Victor and 
Mr. B. Brooke term in their paper O. Hodgsonii, but it differs in its 
much smaller size, in its deeply sulcated horns, the angles of which are 
very much rounded, and the terminal curve but slightly developed. 
It differs also from O. Vignei and O. Karelini. The orbits project less, 
with greater width between them, the length of the molar teeth also 
exceeds the others. There are two wood-cuts of the skull and horns in 
the ‘P. Z. S.’ 1874, page 143, illustrating Mr. Edwin Ward’s paper on 
the subject. 
The following are the dimensions of the specimen :— 
Inches 
Tengthiofiskullln sok os Ris er cakes abet d | 1000 cats II 
Smallest. breadth between orbits .-.) «0. 10 +e fe 4 ee 4B 
Length Or horns, round curve. s- 44s «3. i= petits ee ee 
Circumference ofhoms’. ...°: i. = ot) oss oe cee 
