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Ovis ammon jubata, Lydeklcer^ Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 180, 

 1898, Great and Small Game of India, etc. p. 126, 1901, The 

 Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 271, 1912 ; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 402, 1910. 



(?) Ovis argali dauricus, Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoiv, vol. viii,. 

 art. 2, p. 87, pi. iv, 1873. 



(?) Ovis damvini, PrzewalsU, Reisen in Tibet, 268, 1879-80. 



Typical locality the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. 



An imperfectly known race in some respects intermediate 

 between ammon and hodgsoni, the horns, although less 

 "nipped in" by the sides of the face, having their front 



FIG. 29. SKULL AND HORNS OP MONGOLIAN ARGALI 



(Ovis ammon mongolicd). 

 From a specimen collected by Col. Abbot Anderson. 



angles rounded off, as in the former, while the throat carries 

 a heavy ruff like that of the latter. In the few horns of 

 which measurements have been recorded the length ranges 

 from 41 to 50J inches, and the girth from 16 J to 18 inches. 

 No specimen in collection. 



C. Ovis ammon hodg-soni. 



Ovis nayaur, Hodgson, Asiat. Research, vol. xviii, pt. 2, p. 135, 1833, 

 in part. 



Ovis hodgsoni, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 65; Sclater, ibid. 

 1860, p. 129 ; Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscoiv, vol. viii, art. 2, 

 pp. 151 and 154, 1873 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 520 ; 

 Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 427, 1884 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1898, p. 148 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. 



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