1875.] ON ASIATIC SHEEP. 519 
1766. Ovis argali, Pall. Spice. Zool. fase. xi. p. 20, tab. 1, 2. 
1862. Ovis argali, Radde, Reis. im Siid. v. O.-Sib. p- 238. 
Adult 3, summer?, in Mus. Brit., received from Brandt, Mus. 
St. Petersburg. Locality given, Siberia (specimen x of list). 
Hair soft and close-set, about an inch in length ; the same length 
on neck and body. General colour of the head; neck, body, belly, 
limbs externally as far as the carpi and tarsi rufous brown, tinged 
with grey. On the face the grey predominates greatly. There is 
also a strong shade of grey on the upper parts of the neck and 
shoulders. On the lower parts of the body the rufous becomes 
more intense. The upper part of the tail is fawn-colour. There is 
no sign of a white disk round the tail, the brown of the haunches 
becoming merely paler on the infra-anal parts. Limbs from the 
carpi and tarsi downwards dirty white, clearest on the inside. 
Horns massive, their points of moderate length, and turned boldly 
outwards. (For further particulars vide list, specimen n.) 
Adult 3, winter?, Mus. Lugd., received from Brandt, Mus. St. 
Petersburg. Locality given, Siberia (specimen o of list). 
The general colour of this specimen is much the same as that last 
described, perhaps rather brighter. A pure white disk surrounds 
the tail, and runs down the haunches posteriorly, The hair of the 
neck is slightly lengthened, but of the same colour as that of the 
body. The white of the anterior parts of the face, lower limbs, and 
posterior part of the belly is much purer than is the case in the 
former specimen. The horns are very massive and deeply sulcated 
(vide list, spec. 0). 
Adult 2, season?, Mus. Brit. from St. Petersburg. Darker than 
the male in the same collection. An indistinct pale disk surrounds 
the tail. Horns 203" long, 7" in circumference. 
Adult 3,autumn?, Mus. Amsterdam. Locality given, Northern 
Asia (specimen p of list). 
Centre of back hoary ; lower parts of body brownish grey. The 
rump is white, but the white does not surround the tail so as to form 
a disk. Hair on the neck not longer than that-on the body. 
Range.—The range of this species appears to be of great extent ; 
but its boundaries are as yet most uncertain. Radde, in his ¢ Reisen 
im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien,’ published in 1862, p- 239, thus writes :— 
“ Since the winter of 1831-32, the Argali has not been met with on 
the Daurian frontier, and it is also extinct in East Siberia.’ And 
again, at p. 241 :—“The Argali avoids damp wooded mountains; it 
is wanting in the Kentei and Southern Apfel Mountains. This 
latter, as well as the adjoining Chingan and Bureja ranges, and 
indeed the greater part of the Stanovoi Mountains, appear to possess 
no representative of the genus Zigocerus. . . . To the Birar Tun- 
guses, as well as to the Daurians, who possess information of Eastern 
Mongolia as far as Dalai-nor, was the Argali Sheep known only by 
name. In entire Russian Dauria, as well as in the Baikal Mountains, 
the hunters could tell me nothing of the occurrence of either the 
Argali or Aigocerus sibiricus. To the far south of Kenteiis the Argali 
first met with, from which place the Cossacks of the frontier stations 
