172 MAMMALIA. 



A. Musimon. Tail very short. Horns with the outer edge not 

 prominent and rounded. Throat and sides with a dark streak. 



1. CAPROVIS (MUSIMON) VIGNEI. The SHA or KOCH. 



Throat with a fringe of black hairs. Fur rufous brown. La- 

 teral streak, rings on lower part of feet, blackish. Belly and 

 back of shanks, and ring above hoofs, white. Skull : suborbital 

 pit deep and rounded. 



Ovis Vignei, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1840; Ann. fy Mag. N. H. vii. 251. 



t. 5. f. 9, horns; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 169; List Osteol. 



B. M. 61. 

 ? Mountain Sheep, Lord in Burnes' Cabool, 384; Ray Soc. Rep. 



i. 64. 



Ovis Musimon Vignei, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 

 Wild Sheep of Hindu Koosh, Vigne, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



1840, 440; Ray Soc. Rep. i. 64. 



Ovis cycloceros, Hutton in M'Clelland, Calc. Journ. N. H. iii. 1. 19. 

 Sha (not Sna), in Little Thibet. 

 Koch, at Suliman's Range. 

 Koh i poombar, by the Afghans. 

 Hab. Thibet. 



Male. Ladank. Presented by the East India Company. 

 Horns, with skin of forehead. Thibet ? 



OSTEOLOGY. Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, 71. 



Skull and horns. North India. Presented by the East India 

 Company. 



Horns, separate. North India. Presented by the East India 

 Company. 



Horn, single. North India. Presented by the E. India Company, 



Skull. Thibet. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Skull. Thibet. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Horns. Thibet. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Horns, separate. Thibet. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Two skulls. Ladank. Presented by the East India Company. 



2. CAPROVIS (MUSIMON) ORIENTALIS. The ARMENIAN 

 SHEEP. 



Fulvous chestnut, darker on the back. Limbs and under parts 

 whitish. Tuft of black and white hair above the wrist. Males 

 with a dark line of more or less elongated hair on front of neck, 

 widening into a patch on the chest. " Horns of male subtrigo- 

 nal, compressed and very deep, with strongly-marked angles, 

 and cross striae, diverging backwards, with slight arcuation near 

 the tips, which incline inwards." Blyth. 



