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12. 10. 31. 65. Skull, with horns. Salt Eange. Length 

 of horns 33 J, girth 9J, tip-to-tip interval 12J inches. This 

 is the second best urial definitely known to be from the 

 Salt Eange in Ward's list ; the horn-length in the best 

 being 34 inches. Bequeathed ly A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1912. 



C. Ovis vignei cycloceros. 



Ovis cycloceros, Hulton, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. ii, p. 514 ; 

 Thomas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. ser. 2, vol. v, p. 63, 1890. 



Ovis blanfordi, Hume, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlvi, p. 327, 

 pi. iv, 1887 ; ticlater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 639. 



Ovis vignei blanfordi, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 174, 

 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 100, 1907, The Sheep and 

 Its Cousins, p. 264, 1912, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 10, 

 1913 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 408, 1910. 



Typical locality Afghanistan. 



Size probably medium. Horns tending to turn outwards 

 at the tips, and forming a more open spiral than in the other 



FIG. 26. SKULL AND HORNS OF AFGHAN UEIAL (Ovis vignei cycloceros). 



races, with the front angles prominent and occasionally 

 showing a bended structure ; basal girth in good specimens 

 from 10 to 12^ inches. 



The urial of Waziristan and the Trans-Indus districts 



