Littledale's Sheep 



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LITTLEDALE'S SHEEP 



[Ov/'s sairensis) 



(Plate IH. Fig. 3) 



This species was named by the present writer in IJ'iIcJ Oxrn, Sheep, and 

 Goats of All Lands on the evidence of several specimens in the summer dress 



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Fig. 29. — Male and Female of Littledale's Sheep in the Summer Coat. 



killed bv Mr. St. George Littledale in the Sair Mountains, situated in the 

 Great Altai in lat. 86" E. and long. \f N., and at Semitau, in hit. 

 84" E. and long. 46" N. 



This sheep is a smaller animal than either the argali or Marco Polo's 

 sheep ; the horns of the old rams, which form a close spiral of rather 

 more than one circle, being in some respects intermediate between those 

 of the two species mentioned. Although very considerably smaller, the 



