400 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



LITTLEDALE'S SHEEP (Ovis littledalei). 



Larger than the last, with the same brown forehead and white 

 muzzle, but the ears smaller and rather farther away from the horns, 

 and the latter less " nipped in " below the eyes than in the argali, and 

 showing more of their inner surfaces in a front view. A white throat- 

 ruff in winter. 

 Distribution. The east end of the Thian Shan, to the south-east of 



Kuldja, or Hi, and the Semipalatinsk Altai and Alatau ranges. 



f^ur. SE: '^ip to Tip. LocaH.y. Owne, 



62 J igj 38 \ Altai . . . .St. George Littledale. 



6i igj 394 Do British Museum (St. George 



Littledale). 

 59$ 19^ 38^ Do St. George Littledale. 



51^ 17 41^ Thian Shan . . Do. 



49i 16^ 25^ ? Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



*~47 J 5i 3 Saiar Mountains . W. T. Hornaday. 



46^ 14! 27 Irtish District . . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



45i 144 34 ? Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



*4i I5i 30 Saiar Mountains . . W. T. Hornaday. 



40 14$ 294 Near Sairam Lob Nor Lord Elphinsto.ie. 



- Owner's measurements. 

 The two marked * are Ovis saircnsis. 



