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the southwest. (See the account of 0. a. hodgsonii.) Sushkin him- 

 self remarks (p. 150) : "The races which inhabit the Alashan 

 Range, mountains of southeastern Mongolia (Sumakhada and 

 Khara-narin-ula) , eastern Nan-shan, and the mountains south of 

 Tangla are uncertain." 



In the type locality of darwini, in the southern Gobi, Prschewalski 

 (1884, p. 270) found this animal not shy, "since it is not pursued by 

 man." He also had (Prejevalsky, 1876, vol. 1, p. 261) native re- 

 ports of the occurrence of Argali in the northern unforested parts 

 of the Ala-Shan range. 



Prior to 1905, Kozlov found small herds in the isolated Yabarai 

 Mountains in the southern Gobi (Nasonov, 1923, p. 111). Nasonov 

 (1913, p. 621) described the animal of this region as 0. kozlovi. 



In 1923-25 R. C. Andrews (1926, pp. 243, 294, 343) found these 

 animals on Artsa Bogdo, Baga Bogdo, and Jichi Ola in the central 

 Gobi; on the first-mentioned range they were apparently common. 

 Perhaps the Wild Sheep reported by Kozlov (fide Carruthers, 1913, 

 p. 629) on the Ati Bogdo (about lat. 43 N., long. 98 W.) belong 

 to the present form. Lattimore (1929, p. 242) sighted a solitary 

 ram in the Gobi south of the Ati Bogdo, near the "House of the 

 False Lama." 



Formozow (1931, p. 76) found considerable numbers of Argali on 

 Iche Bogdo, just west of Artsa Bogdo. 



G. M. Allen (1930a, p. 2) records "nine from Kweihuacheng, 

 Shansi, as well as a single one from Lao Tsa Tao, Chihli Province, 

 one hundred miles north of Peking, and another from Tai Pei Shan, 

 Tsingling Mountains, Shensi, the last apparently a new locality for 

 sheep in China." 



Sj Slander (1922, pp. 140-144) gives an interesting but melan- 

 choly picture of the animals in the Ta Tsing Shan, north of Kuei- 

 Hua-Ch'eng in Suiyuan. "They are no doubt doomed to extinction 

 within the not very distant future, because here as elsewhere in the 

 borderland agriculture conquers yearly new strips of land." They 

 are much disturbed by hundreds and thousands of "people from the 

 plains roaming about in the hills in search for fuel." The largest 

 flock he saw consisted of 22 animals. "The regions where the sheep 

 can live their own natural life are very few and far between in this 

 part of Ta-Tsing-Shan." 



Arthur de C. Sowerby writes (1937, pp. 255-256) : 



The range of this fine wild sheep is from the mountains north of Peking 

 in what is now known as Jehol westward through Charhar into Suiyuan and 

 Ninghsia Provinces and northward throughout Southern or Inner Mongolia 

 where suitable country occurs. There is a record of a single specimen, referred 

 to this species by Dr. Glover M. Allen, which was taken by Dr. Roy Chap- 

 man Andrews in the T'ai Pai Shan area in the Tsing Ling range in South 



