Heads and Horna n 



Beside the last-mentioned hangs a mounted head of a White Mountain 

 Sheep, On* dalli (Plate III, Fig. 1), from the Kenai Peninsula, the horns 

 of which are 37 inches in length. The western shore of Bering Sea is repre- 

 sented hy a head of the rare Kamchatka!! Mountain Sheep (Oris nivicola) , a 

 species of a uniform gray color, with horns very similar to those of Ovis dalli. 



In addition to the above, the collection contains a pair of Black Sheep 

 horns that are unusually narrow between tips, a pair of horns of a young Oris 

 poll ram, horns of a female Oris fannini, and the horns of a Big-Horn ram, with 

 one tip broken and hanging, shot immediately after a prolonged fight with 

 another ram. which was witnessed by the hunter. The only American forms 

 not represented in the collection are Oris nehoni, from southern California 

 and Lower California, and the Mexican Sheep, from Chichuahua, Mexico. In 

 about one more year this collection would have contained a series of mountain 

 sheep heads and horns practically complete for the world. One domestic sheep 

 specimen has been admitted. It comes from Kl Paso, Texas, and each horn 

 makes two fully complete circles. These are the only sheep horns ever seen 

 by the author making two perfect turns. 



T H K I B K X K S AND GOATS 



Of ibex horns, the collection contains some excellent examples. The great 

 Asiatic Ibex, Capra sibirica (Plate IV, Fig. 1) is represented by horns from 

 the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, which have a length of 45 V4 

 inches. Quite equal in interest to these are a puzzling pair of large size 

 studded on the front edge with a perfectly regular row of "bosses" of enorm- 

 ous size. They were said to have come from "the Caucasus Mountains," but 

 Mr. Rowland Ward has pointed out the impossibility of that origin. In Mr. 

 Ward's "Records of Big Game" there is nothing that resembles them, and their 

 identity is at present involved in doubt. It seems strange that any animal with 

 horns so very striking and characteristic should not be so well known, as to be 

 at once recognizable. In length, these horns measure only 26V2 inches, but at 

 the base each has a circumference of 11 inches. They are figured herewith, 

 and in Plate IV appear as Fig. 3. 



The Nubian Ibex, Capra nubiana (Plate IV, Fig. 2), from Abyssinia, 

 is represented by horns 38 inches long, spreading 24 1 /t> inches at the tips. These 

 are quite slender, and the skull indicates a small animal for an ibex. The more 

 robust Persian Wild Goat, Capra hircus aegagrus (Plate IV, Fig. 4) is 

 represented by a massive pair 39 inches long, with a basal circumference of 

 9 ] /2 inches. 



