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me inclined to empty the remainder of the magazine in 

 the direction of the cause of all the trouble. I learnt 

 later that these cattle had been purchased by a Russian 

 merchant in Hi Valle}', and that he was driving them 

 by this short cut to some place on the northern side of 

 the Ala-tau. 



Great numbers of derelict horns were seen that day. 

 They were all of a ver\' uniform type, quite as much 

 so, in fact, as are the ammon horns one sees in the Altai. 

 This is a great contrast to the various twists and thick- 

 nesses that are so noticeable in the Central Tian Shan, 

 particularly on the Yulduz plateau. The finest pair of 

 horns measured in the Borotala — and I taped a great 

 many — were: length 60J in., girth 16J in., and spread 

 38 in. My three best (shot) heads measured, in inches : 



Length. Girth. Spread. 



53 i6i 33| 



51^ i5i 29 



49 i6i — 



The distribution of Ovis ammon karelini * stretches 

 from the north-east end of the Ala-tau Mountains, which 

 is their northern limit, westwards along the range to the 

 head of the Borotala, and from there eastwards along the 

 whole length of the northern declivities of the Tian Shan, 

 from Sairam Nor to the Karlik Tagh, which forms the 

 most easterly extremity of the range. They are found 

 throughout the Central and South-western Tian Shan 

 from the Eastern Yulduz as far as the Aksay and Atbashi 

 plateaux, for in the latter locality they were observed 

 by Carruthers during his visit to that region in 1908. 

 Throughout the whole of their northern and eastern 



^ I am adhering to the nomenclature adopted by -Mr. Lydekker. See 

 Field, January i6th, 1909. 



