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Mr. Hornaday's description ot the type specimen, which is a nine-year- 

 old ram killed in mid-winter, runs as tollows : — 



" Entire head and neck, breast, abdomen, inside of fore-legs, and rump- 

 patch for four inches above insertion of tail snow-white. Entire body, 

 except as above, brownish grey, giving the appearance of a white animal 

 covered by a grey blanket. This colour is produced by a nearly even 

 mixture of pure white and blackish-brown hairs. The grey colour covers 

 the shoulders from the insertion of the neck downwards to the knee, where 



Fig. 5. — Head and Skin, in the Winter Coat, of a recently-killed Ram oF the Kamchatkan Bighorn. 



From a photograph by Prince Demidoft". 



it fades out. On the outside of the thigh the grey colour grows paler as it 

 descends, until at the hock-joint it fades out entirely. The posterior edge 

 of the thigh is white. The lower portion of the inner surface of the 

 thigh partakes of the grey body-colour, but is somewhat paler. 



" On tlie front edge of the thigh and extending down to the hoof 

 is a conspicuous band of dark brown, i ,', inch wide, which, below the 

 hock-joint, joins rather abruptly the pure white hair which covers the sides 

 and rear edge of the leg. A similar brown band extends down the front of 

 the fore-leg from knee to hoof, similarly backed up posteriorly with white. 



