88 account of the argali. July 24. 



"Tail is very short. 



The summer coat consists of ftiort hair, sleek, and 

 resembling that of a deer. 



The winter coat consists of wool like down, mixed 

 with hair, every where an inch and an half long at 

 leaft, concealing at its roots a fine woolly down, of a 

 white colour, in general. 



As to colour and all other particulars, I refer to 

 the drawing, executed and coloured from life by the 

 doctor's draughtsman, under his own eye. 



The doctor exa;nined in Dauria, a lamb of the or- 

 gali or wild fheep, and found its coat even four or five 

 inches long in some parts, and sufficiently soft, with 

 hair much finer than in the deer kind; nor was it un- 

 dulated like it. 



The colour of its coat was in general of a dark 

 greyifli brown, with white tips to the longer hairs, 

 and consisted of hair mixed with wool, of a dark iron 



grey. 



The doctor likewise saw in 1768, amongst some 

 garments brought from the islands lying between 

 the continent of America and Kamtchatka, strings 

 that were made of a white wool, which the doctor was 

 certain had been taken from the argali, and he was 

 confirmed in his opinion on observing that it was 

 mixed with hair. 



Dr. Pallas on reading this article, made the follow- 

 ing addition to it. 



By accounts lately received from the Tfhutfki, the 

 argali is found of a white colour on the continent of 

 America, opposite to their country. It is likewise 

 of a whitlfh coleur at ILamtchatka ; which was an«>^ 



