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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Typical locality Karatau, Bokhara. 



Horns of the littledalei type, but much smaller; length 

 35 j to 38, girth 10J inches in the two described specimens. 

 Colour, in winter, of a Samarkand ram, dark brown above, 

 slightly paler on neck, and becoming greyish brown on 

 flanks ; throat-ruff white tinged with grey ; head darker 

 than neck, with white muzzle ; rump-patch and under-parts 

 white ; tail greyish brown above ; legs dirty white with 

 dark reddish brown stripe in front, which is narrower and 

 paler in hind than in front pair. In young rams the ruff is 

 little developed and the general colour more rufous. 



No example in the collection. 



H. Ovis ammon karelini. 



Ovis karelini, Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, 



pp. 84, 86, pi. i, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, 



pp. 171, 210, 1876. 

 Ovis poli karelini, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 197, 



1898, partim. 

 Ovis ammon karelini, Lydekker, Field, vol. cxiii, p. 117, 1909, The 



Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 275, 1912, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. 



Mus. p. 8, 1913; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 404, 



1910. 



FIG. 32. SKULL AND HORNS OF ALATAU AEGALI 



(Ovis ammon karelini). 

 From a specimen in Sir E. G. Loder's collection. 



