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and cross-striae, diverging backwards, with a slight arcuation to 

 near the tips, which incline inwards. . . . 



Horns ... 20 inches over the curvature .... Around the eye 

 and muzzle this species is whitish; the chaffron and front of the 

 limbs are more or less tinged with dusky. . . . Female generally 

 similar, but smaller, with no black down the front of the neck, 

 and in the observed instances hornless." (Blyth, 1841, pp. 69-70.) 



Lydekker (1913c, vol. 1, p. 80) refers to this subspecies speci- 

 mens from "Khodarendikian, Asia Minor," and from "Ivuz Dagh, 

 near Enagli, Asia Minor" places which I have not located in any 

 atlas. Perhaps the first of these should read "Khodavendikyar" or 

 "Khodawendikiar," a vilayet in western Asia Minor, although Wild 

 Sheep do not seem to have been recorded otherwise from this region. 

 Possibly the second should read "Ibris Dagh, near Eregli"; this, 

 however, is very close to the type locality of Ovis ophion ana- 

 tolica. Perhaps Lydekker's colored figure (1901, pi. 3, fig. 5) is 

 based upon the first of these specimens (cf. op. cit., p. 135). 



Ispahan Sheep 



OVIS GMELINII ISPHAGANICA NaSODOV 



Ovis orientalis isphaganica Nasonov, Bull. Acad. Imper. Sci. St.-Petersbourg, 

 ser. 6, vol. 4, pt. 1, p. 686, 1910. (Mountains in the vicinity of Ispahan, 

 Persia (Nasonov, 1923, p. 33).) 



FIGS.: Nasonov, op. cit., pi. facing p. 702; Nasonov, 1911, fig. 9 (facing p. 

 1296). 



Our information on the numbers of this sheep is meager and far 

 from up-to-date. 



It is closely related to 0. g. urmiana, but its horns are more 

 closely curled; females hornless (Nasonov, 1923, pp. 32, 35). 



Sushkin (1925, p. 148) gives the range as "mountains of south- 

 western Persia: near Ispahan; Range Pushti-Kuh." 



"About Isfahan it is not uncommon to find wild sheep grazing in 

 the plain near the hills" (0. St. John, in Blanford, 1876, p. 88). 



In years gone by Wild Sheep were "not too plenty not far from 

 Ispahan" (William Lord Smith, in litt., February 17, 1938). 



Nasonov (1923, p. 33) records specimens from Kamyshlu (60 km. 

 from Ispahan), from the vicinity of Dopolun (southwest of Ispa- 

 han) , and from the Pusht i Kuh. 



Urmian Red Sheep 



OVIS GMELINII URMIANA Gunther 



Ovis ophion var. urmiana Gunther, Jour. Linnean Soc. [London], zool., vol. 

 27, p. 374, 1899. ("Koyun Daghi, the largest island of the Urmi Archi- 

 pelago," Lake Urmi, northwestern Persia.) 



