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With respect to the right-hand or left-hand spiral, or, 

 as I should prefer to call it, the outward or inward twist 

 of the horns, I was rather surprised to learn that it was 

 considered a sufficiently fixed peculiarity to distinguish 

 species. For instance, I should say the greater number 

 of urial I have shot have horns in one plane or with a 

 twist outwards, but I have certainly shot a few with a 

 twist in the opposite direction. There is, I think, one 

 in the Srinagar Club, which perhaps one of your readers 

 in that delectable spot may corroborate. 



It may interest your readers to learn that a ewe of the 

 kind, shot by me in the Elburz, is now on the way to 

 the Zoological Gardens. . . . 



(6) LETTER FROM MR E. LYDEKKER. 



Three of the heads of the wild sheep obtained by Major 

 R L. Kennion near Bujnurd, Persia, previously referred 

 to in 'The Field/ March 30, April 6, and July 30, are 

 now mounted, and one of them has been handed over to 

 the British Museum by Mr Eowland Ward. As Bujnurd 

 is situated in the valley lying between the Ala Dagh on 

 the south and the Kopet Dagh on the north, it was from 

 the first practically certain that the sheep would turn out 

 to belong to the Kopet Dagh race of the urial (Ovis vignei 

 arkal). As the result of a comparison of one of Major 

 Kennion's specimens with a skull and horns presented 

 to the Museum by Mr St George Littledale some years 

 ago, this is now definitely proved to be the case, both 

 examples showing the peculiarly wide, flat, and sparsely 

 ridged front surface of the horns distinctive of that race. 

 The horns of the two finest of the Bujnurd rams are very 

 large, forming rather more than a complete circle. The 

 white ruffs of the same two specimens are also very large 



