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tame when taken young, and fed first on milk, and 

 afterwards on fodder, like the domestic fheep, as has 

 been found on numerous experiments made in the 

 Rufsian settlements in these parts. 



This Animal formerly frequented the regions a- 

 bout the upper Irtijh, and some other parts of Sibe- 

 ria, where it is no longer seen since colonies have 

 been settled in these countries. It is common in 

 the Mongalian, Soigarian, and Tartarian moun- 

 tains, where it enjoys its favourite solitude or li- 

 berty. The argali is found likewise on the banks of 

 the Lena, up as high as 60 degrees of north latitude; 

 and it propagates its species even in Kamtchatka, as 

 noticed before. The doctor gives us a description of 

 a young argali ram of that country, which he took , 

 from Steller's zoological manuscript, a naturalist who 

 had been sent in a former reign to explore the wilds 

 of Siberia. 



The argali is also found in the mountains of Fer^. 

 sia, of which variety we have a stuffed fkin in the 

 museum of the imperial academy of sciences, sent 

 here by Gmelin, who travelled about the same time 

 with Pallas ; and one of that last mentioned gentle- 

 man from Dauria, of which he has given a general 

 description whilst alive, to be seen at the end ot this 

 article ; although he had not then sufficient leisure to be 

 so particular as he has been in the description of a 

 female argali, (likewise translated in this article,^ al- 

 though not with all the minutenefs of the doctor's 

 zoological accuracy ; for the reasons given above. 



The same wild animal is also said to obtain in the 

 Kuril islands in great size and beauty. 



