500 BOVID.E. 



smooth, with transverse striae, arising close together, curving 

 outwards, first upwards, then downwards, and lastly backwards. In 

 females the horns are short, slightly curved upwards and outwards, 

 suboval in section, the longer diameter across the head. 



Colour brownish grey above, much browner in summer, slaty grey 

 with a brownish wash in winter. Lower parts, inside and back of 

 limbs, and buttocks as far as base of tail white. In adult males 

 the face, chest, a stripe down the front of all limbs, but broken by 

 white at the knees in the fore limbs, a band down the lower part 

 of the side bordering the white of the belly, and the terminal two- 

 thirds of the tail black. The black markings on the face, chest, 

 and sides are wanting in females. 



Fig. 163. Ovis nahura. 



Dimensions. Height at shoulder in males about 3 feet, length to 

 root of tail 5, tail 7 inches ; horns about 24 round curve, girth at 

 base about 11 ; the greatest recorded dimensions being length 32*1 

 and 30-5, girth 13 ; basal length of skull 9'5, breadth across orbits 

 5-6. Females considerably smaller in all dimensions. 



Distribution. Tibet from near Shigarin Baltistan, and near San ju 

 S.E. of Tarkand, to Moupin, and from the main Himalayan axis, or 

 in places the high ground south of it, to the Kuenlun and Altyn 

 Tagh. Never found below about 10,000 feet. In summer usually 

 seen about 14,000 to 16,000. 



This animal in structure is quite as much allied toCapra as to Ovis, 

 aud is referred to the latter genus mainly because it resembles sheep 

 rather than goats in external appearance, and hence has been gene- 



