ORDER ARTIODACTYLA : EVEN-TOED UNGULATES 585 



According to the latest information available, this sheep seems to 

 have survived in fair numbers. 



Horns moderately thick, with rather rounded edges; frontal sur- 

 face very convex; orbital surface flat; tips curving spirally out- 

 wards; length, 44-45 inches. Neck covered with a white mane, 

 shaded with grayish brown ; light brown of back and sides separated 

 from yellowish white of belly by a wide dark line; toward the tail 

 the color becomes grayish white ; tail and a small patch round it 

 yellowish white ; a distinct dark median line on the back. Height at 

 shoulder, 42 inches. Female with short horns. (Severtzoff, 1876, 

 pp. 210, 219.) Most or all of the horn measurements given by Ward 

 (1935, p. 285) for this subspecies are probably of specimens of 

 littledalei. 



Sushkin (1925, p. 149) gives the range of karelini as "Trans- 

 Ilian or Za-Iliiskii Alatau; upper Naryn (sources of Syr Daria) ; 

 and around Issik-kul." The sheep of the central Tian Shan, from 

 the international boundary east of Issyk Kul as far east as the 

 Yulduz Valley, may be more or less intermediate between karelini, 

 littledalei, and humei. There is much confusion in the literature as 

 to the ranges of karelini, littledalei, humei, and polii. For example, 

 Miller (in Carruthers, 1913, pp. 569-573, 593) and Carruthers (1915, 

 p. 143) seem to mistake littledalei more or less throughout for 

 karelini. This is apparently due to an assumption that the Dzun- 

 garian Alatau, instead of the Trans-Ilian Alatau, is the type locality 

 of karelini. Lydekker (1909, p. 117) is particularly hazy in referring 

 to the range of karelini as "the Alatau and other parts of the Altai." 

 Thus much of the more recent literature dealing with "karelini" 

 applies actually to littledalei, if Sushkin's interpretation (1925, p. 

 149) of the ranges is correct in the main. South of Issyk Kul, 

 along or near the crest of the southwestern Tian Shan, the range 

 of karelini seems to meet that of humei. 



Severtzoff (1876, p. 220) gives the following account: 



O. Karelini inhabits all the Semiretchje Altai [= Alatau] and also the 

 Saplisky Altai [= Za-Iliiskii Alatau], but is not so common there as it is 

 in the mountains between Turgeli and Kaskelen; it has been lately driven 

 out of the latter locality by the Cossack sportsmen, and has gone to a 

 higher elevation, namely the Kebin steppe above the range of trees. East 

 of Turgeli, on the bare mountains and plains near the rivers Chilik and 

 Keben [=Kelen], 0. Karelini is still very abundant, except in localities which 

 are covered with trees, extending from Chilik as far as Lantash [=Santash]. 

 Further, it inhabits all the neighbourhood of Issik-kul; it is rather rare 

 on the northern part of the Thian-Shan, which is thickly covered with trees. 

 I also met with numerous flocks in the steppes of the Narin, where they find 

 such an abundance of food on the meadows and shelter among the rocks; 

 these localities are about 12,000 to 13,000 feet above the sea-level. 



O. Karelini is sometimes also met with on the mountains separating the 

 Narin from its tributary the Atpash, as far as the plains between the rivers 



