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sanctuary: the usual result in India of creating a 'sanctuary' with- 

 out proper protection; it merely becomes a poacher's paradise. 



"On the right bank of the Indus there are still plenty of ammon on 

 their old grounds." 



The same authority says (1936, p. 169) : "For about nine months 

 of the year they are to be found on the high plateaux of the Rupshu 

 district, and the immediately adjoining nullahs, in the whole of the 

 Changchenmo district, the country round the Pangong Lake and 

 thence southward right along the east flank of the Himalayas to 

 Sikkim and Eastern Tibet." 



The Game Warden of Kashmir writes (in litt., May, 1937) con- 

 cerning conditions in Ladak: "Plentiful, but impossible to give even 

 an approximate number. Strict Game Laws protect them. Only a 

 limited number of heads allowed to be shot annually with the size 

 limit of over 38 inches." 



The name that should be applied to the Argali of the northeastern 

 Tibetan region (now known as Ching-hai), from the Nan Shan 

 south to the Tangla Mountains and the Szechwan border, has long 

 been a matter of doubt. Probably some of the following records 

 summarized by Nasonov should be only provisionally referred to 

 hodgsonii. 



Kozlov found Argali in the Burkhan Buddha Range; he reported 

 them very common in the Nan Shan, and extremely numerous in 

 the Humboldt Range. They were reported by Przewalski as very 

 numerous south of the Shugan-ula, and as rare in the Baien Kara 

 Mountains. He also had Mongol report of their occurrence in the 

 South Kuku Nor Range. Sven Hedin, Roborovsky, and Kozlov 

 found Argali in the Anembar-ula, situated between the Humboldt 

 Range and the Altyn-Tagh. (Nasonov, 1923, pp. 105-110.) 



E. H. Wilson writes (1913, vol. 2, p. 146) concerning the Chino- 

 Tibetan borderland: "Another Sheep, probably Hodgson's . . . , 

 occurs immediately to the west and north of Tachienlu, but is very 

 rare. It has been seen in the neighbourhood of Litang by at least 

 two travellers .... Zappey saw three near the Rama-lal Pass." 



G. M. Allen reports (1939a, pp. 291-292) on the Second Dolan 

 Expedition (1934-1936) as follows: 



Several fine specimens from the extreme upper waters of the Yangtse in 

 Chinghai (Kokonor, Tibet) doubtless represent typical Ovis ammon hodgsoni 

 and agree with Lydekker's diagnosis of that race .... 



Mr. Dolan writes that this sheep was first found on the steppe of Seshu 

 (Camp 61) [about lat. 32 50' N., long. 98 15' E.], where they inhabited 

 island-like ranges of granite rising from the steppe. Skulls and old sign were 

 seen here. Later, specimens were collected west of Drechu Gomba (Camp 79) 

 [about lat. 33 40' N., long. 97 20' E.] and farther west on the Chang Tang. 

 Sheep were seen also on granite ranges north of Tossun Nor on the steppes 



