Siberian Arorali 



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Siberia in the British Museum showing the winter dress. In a young 

 ram from the Altai (Fig. 25) recently living in the Zoological Gardens there 

 is, however, a distinct throat-ruff, although it does not seem that this 

 would ever become so long or so white as in the Tibetan argali. In the 

 winter dress ot the old rams the general colour of the hair on the upper- 



FiG. 28. — Skull and Horns of Siberian Argali. From an Altai specimen shot by 

 Mr. St. George Littledale. 



parts is light brown tinged with grey ; the lower part of the face, the 

 abdomen, a patch on the rump, including the tail, and the inner surfaces 

 of the limbs and their front surfaces below the knees and hocks being 

 white or whitish. In the very short summer coat the colour of the old 

 rams is very much lighter, the general tint above being uniform speckled 

 light brown and white, becoming lighter on the face, throat, chest, the 

 under surface of the body, and the limbs, while the white rump-patch is 



