522 SIR VICTOR BROOKE AND MR. B. BROOKE [June 15, 
neck. General colour grizzly brown. An indefinitely bounded patch 
on the face below the eyes, and all four limbs anteriorly rich uniform 
dark brown. Space round the muzzle, upper and under lip, rump, 
and posterior part of the haunches, centre of the belly, and the 
limbs posteriorly pure white. The white on the posterior parts of 
the limbs gives place very suddenly to the brown of their anterior 
surfaces. ‘The white of the rump does not surround the tail, which 
on its upper surface is darker than the back. Lars and tail very 
short. 
Horns in form closely resembling those of Ovis montana. Frontal 
and nuchal surfaces convex. Orbital surface flat. Fronto-nuchal 
and nuchal edges very greatly ronnded. Fronto-orbital edge strongly 
defined, a deep groove lying between it and the orbital surface. The 
terminal curve of the horns well developed, and directed upwards 
and outwards. 
Skull remarkably short and broad, and strongly anchylosed. A 
shallow anteorbital fossa. Length from between horns to end of 
premaxille 10", its greatest width across the orbits 63/; height at 
the shoulder 37"; length of horns round curve 33", their circum- 
ference 123". S 
Adult &. Mus. Strassburg. Only differs from the former in 
being considerably paler in colour. Length of horns 27"; their. 
circumference 132!'. . 
Adult 9. Mus. Lugd. Is darker than the male, and has short 
compressed horns about 9” in length. The distribution of colour is 
the same as in the male. 
Range.—Kamtschatka (Lschscholtz) ; Stanovoi Mountains, as far 
south as the sources of the Utschur (Middendorf’). Besides the 
above locality, Middendorff convinced himself of the occurrence of a 
Wild Sheep at about 67°N. lat., eastward from Yenisei, in the 
Sywerma Mountains, near the sources of the river Cheta; and 
doubtless referring to the same species, Mr. Severtzoff writes (/. e. 
p- 86) :—* Very near to Ovis nivicola is another, as yet not properly 
identified, Sheep from North Siberia, from the mountains which 
separate the basins of the rivers Nyjnaya and Tungasca, tributaries 
of the Yenisei, from that of the Hatanga and Piascina. Several 
perfect specimens of this animal were obtained by Mr. Schmidt’s 
expedition for the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences.’’ 
This species has by many naturalists been considered identical 
with Ovis montana of North America. We have, however, no 
hesitation in considering it distinct from that species. In the extra- 
ordinary breadth and shortness of its skull Ovis nivicola differs most 
markedly from all the allied species. 
List of specimens examined. 
a. This specimen was brought by Colonel J. E. Gordon “ from 
the Thian-Shan range towards Russian Turkestan” (in litt.). It 
represents a remarkably fine adult male in winter coat. The fronto- 
orbital and fronto-nuchal edges of the horns are definite, the latter 
the most marked. All three surfaces very flat. 
