584 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



of the Tian Shan, from Sairam Nor to the Karlik Tagh, which forms the most 

 easterly extremity of the range. . . . The horns seen in the Karlik Tagh, 

 right on the edge of the Gobi, were in every respect similar to those of the 

 Borotala. It is in the region of the Manas- Yulduz divide that the puzzle 

 commences, for on the Yulduz littledalei are to be found on the same ground 

 with karelini and in almost equal numbers. . . . 



The two days at Ta-shih-tu [on the northern side of Tian Shan, 90-100 

 miles west of Barkul] were spent in hunting for sheep. There were a good 

 many of them about. 



"The outlying Kanjik ridge, to the north-east of Sairam Nor, 

 which is of no altitude and does not form much of a retreat, is 

 inhabited by wild sheep. . . . We know from our own observations 

 that wild-sheep exist, in winter, on the low foothills at the northern 

 base of the range in the vicinity of Shi-Kho." (Carruthers, 1915, 

 pp. 146-147.) The same author (pp. 142-148) supplies considerable 

 information concerning sheep in other parts of the Tian Shan. 



[Miller (in Carruthers, 1913, p. 571) refers to a third and "as 

 yet imperfectly known" variety of Tian Shan sheep. It "is appar- 

 ently considerably rarer than the other two [karelini and littledalei]. 

 It approximates to the 0. a. hodgsoni, its chief characteristics being 

 great massiveness, short length, and narrow spread. There is prac- 

 tically no second twist to the horn. Colonel Biddulph . . . mea- 

 sured several heads in the Western Yulduz and found them to 

 average, length 40 to 50 in., girth 16 to 18 in., and spread 17 to 20 in. 

 As this type of horn appears to differ just as much from the other 

 two as they do from one another, it has every right to be considered 

 a distinct variety." 



Sven Hedin (1903, vol. 1, p. 339) reports wild sheep in the rather 

 isolated Kurruk Tag, a range lying south of the Tian Shan, toward 

 the Tarim River and Lop Nor. According to Nasonov (1923, p. 78), 

 Kozlov had also found them in this range about 1893-95. Possibly 

 this is the form rather loosely described by Kowarzik (1913, p. 442) 

 as Ovis poll adametzl, with no more exact type locality than the 

 Lop Nor region.] 



Karelin's Argali; Issyk Kill Argali; A hit an Argali 



Ovis AMMON KARELINI Severtzov 



Ovis Karelini Severtzov, Izviestia Imper. Obshchestvo Liub. Estest., Antrop. i 

 Etnogr. [Moscow], vol. 8, pt. 2, pp. 84, 86, 1873. (Alatau of Semiretchie, 

 Russian Turkestan; this Alatau, according to Sushkin's interpretation 

 (1925, p. 149), lies between the Hi River and Issyk Kul.) 



FIGS.: Severtzov, 1873, pi. 1, pi. 5, fig. 3; Lydekker,' 1913a, pi. 22, fig. 1, and 

 1913c, vol. 1, p. 104, fig. 32; Nasonov, 1914a, p. 704, fig. 3, and pi. 1; 

 Nasonov, 1923, pi. 3; Roosevelt and Roosevelt, 1926, pi. facing p. 152 

 (subsp.?). 



