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512 SIR VICTOR BROOKE AND MR. B. BROOKE |June 1d, 
We now proceed to give abstracts of Mr. Severtzoff’s descriptions 
of the species observed by him in Turkestan, 
“Qvis KARELENI. (Figs. 2 and 3.) 
“‘[ have named this species after the worthy explorer of Central 
Asia, who was also the first to obtain specimens of the species in the 
Ala Tau, near Semiretchinsk, about 1840. ‘The specimens have up 
to the present been considered identical with Ovis argali (Pallas). 
Ovis karelini (specimen 6 in list). 
I have, however, upon a comparison of my two perfect specimens 
and the three specimens obtained by Karelin, separated this form 
from the true East-Siberian Ovis argali of Pallas. Of this latter 
species there are three skulls and a perfect specimen in the Moscow 
University Museum.” 
Description.—“The horns are moderately thick, with rather 
