520 SIR VICTOR BROOKE AND MR. B. BROOKE [June 15, 
Altansk, Bukukun, and Kirinsk sometimes obtain skins by barter. 
This is also the case in Eastern Sajan. The Cossacks of Tunkinsk 
exchange with the Darchates the skins of Antilope gutturosa and of 
the Argali, of which species I saw skins at Schimki. It is also 
known to the Sojotes and Burjates of the Upper Irkut.” 
According to Severtzoff the Argali does not occur in Turkestan ; 
but he believes that it ranges “‘to the east of the desert of Gobi over 
the mountains of the Upper Salenga, Higan, where it has been met 
with, and probably further south over the Inshan, and about the 
* sources of the two great Chinese rivers. ‘his will either be proved 
or negatived by Mr. Prjevalsky, who is now exploring this part of the 
country.” Mr. Severtzoff appears to be uncertain as to whether the 
Sheep bearing the name of Argali which inhabits the low hills of the 
Siberian Kirgees steppes of Karkalinsk, Orkatsk, and Aldgan-adersk 
belong to this species or not. 
Ovis Hopesonit, (Figs. 6 and 7). 
1833. Ovis nayaur or argali, Hodgs. Asiat. Res. vol. xviil. part 2, 
p. 133 (part). 
1840. Ovis hodgsonii, Blyth, P. Z.S. p. 65. 
1841. Ovis ammonoides, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Soc. p. 230, pl. 1. 
1860. Ovis hodgsonii, Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 129. 
Adult 3, winter, Colebrooke collection. Obtained within 30 
miles of Leh in the winter of 1873 (spec. x of list). 
Hair of body about 2 inches in length, coarse and close-set. On 
the sides and lower surface of the neck the hair is lengthened into a 
long rich ruff-like mane of a snow-white colour. Along the median 
line of the upper neck there is a narrow band of rather shorter hair, 
Fig. 6. 
Ovis hodgsoni (specimen « in list), 
which, however, is about twice as long as that on the body, and, 
being continued as far back as the withers, forms a short dorsal 
mane. General colour of the body dark brown, mixed with grey. 
Anterior parts of the face, belly, limbs below the carpi and tarsi 
