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THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



fore-part of the neck, the chest, the under parts, the rump inclusive of the tail, and 

 the legs are white. The patch of white on the rump is of irregular contour, and 

 sometimes, as in our figure, there may be a small black mark on the upper surface 

 of the tail. In summer it is probable, according to Mr. Blanford, that the color is 

 darker and browner. The ewes differ by the absence of any white on the throat. 

 In addition to the long hairs on the nape of the neck, the old males have a more or 



THE PAMIR WII<D SHEEP. 

 (One-seventeenth natural size.) 



less marked ruff on the throat. In an adult male measured by Mr. Blanford, in 

 which the horns had a length of forty-eight inches, the height at the withers was 

 three feet eight inches, and the length from the horns to the tip of the tail five feet 

 two inches, of which five and one-half inches was taken up by the tail itself. As is 

 the case with the argali; the ewes are but little inferior in size to the rams. Dr. 

 Severtzow estimates that an adult ram would weigh about five hundred pounds. 



