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the urial and of the Armenian type. Further eastward, 

 sheep of the urial type, which I have identified with 

 Brandt's 0. arkal, occur in the Kopet Dagh range, be- 

 tween Persia and Kussian Turkestan, and it may be 

 that, as Major Kennion suggests, the North Elburz sheep 

 are nearly allied to or identical with them. I hope to 

 induce Major Kennion to send a specimen to the British 

 Museum. 



(4) EXTEACT FROM LETTER FROM MR E. LYDEKKER (headed 



"VARIATION IN HORNS OF MOUFLON"). 



... I may mention in conclusion that Major Kennion 

 has presented to the Natural History Museum the skins 

 of some of the wild sheep shot by him on the north side 

 of the Elburz range, as described in ' The Field ' of March 

 30 (p. 529). From the evidence of these skins, which 

 show no whitish saddle-mark, as well as from information 

 supplied to me in a letter from Major Kennion himself, 

 I am convinced that these sheep are urial and not Ar- 

 menian wild sheep. Furthermore, I believe they will 

 prove to be identical with the wild sheep of the Kopet 

 Dagh (a branch of the Elburz range), which I have de- 

 scribed under the name of Ovis vignei arkal, although the 

 typical locality of that race is the Usturt plateau, west of 

 Lake Baikal. The latter point I shall be able to decide 

 when the heads of Major Kennion's specimens (one of 

 which he has kindly promised to give to the Natural 

 History Museum) arrive in this country. 



From the evidence afforded by these sheep and others 

 from the south side of the Elburz, described by me in 

 'The Field' for 1904 (vol. civ., p. 1031) under the name 

 of Ovis gmelini erskinii, it may now be stated that while 

 urial occur on the north side of the Elburz range, that 



