524 SIR VICTOR BROOKE AND MR. 8B. BROOKE [June [3, 
6. Sent home by Captain Biddulph from the Yarkund Expedition. 
It is also a male in winter coat, but is a darker-coloured specimen 
than a, the snow-white mane so strongly marked in the former being 
in this specimen much tinged with rufous. The horns are more 
battered, but the edges appear to have been similar. The orbital 
surface slightly convex. In both this and the preceding specimen 
the tail is entirely surrounded by pure white, its dorsum having a 
very thin dark line. 
c. A single horn in the College of Surgeons (No. 3773 in cata- 
logue, type of O. seulptorum, Blyth, P. Z.S. 1840, and Annals and 
Magazine Nat. Hist. 1841, pl. 5. figs. 3 & 4), which we, with some 
hesitation, follow Mr. Severtzoff’s example in referring to O. karelini. 
Median axis directed sharply inwards; terminal axis running at first 
parallel with the basal axis, its extremity, from the unusual length 
of the horn, directed downwards. Fronto-orbital edge rounded for 
its entire length, although the frontal and orbital surfaces are well 
defined ; nuchal edge rounded at the base, becoming much sharper 
at the tip. Frontal surface slightly convex for its entire length ; 
orbital surface convex for about half its length, and then becoming 
gradually concave ; nuchal surface flat for about half its length, then 
becoming also gradually concave. The horn is curved so tensely as 
to cause the nuchal edge to form one complete circle, and part of the 
segment of another. 
d. A mounted specimen at Berlin. 
e. A perfect skull and horns, brought home by Dr. Bellew from 
the Yarkund Expedition. All the surfaces are remarkably flat, the 
edges rounded, but distinctly marked. 
Jf. This magnificent pair of horns on the frontal bones was sent 
home from the Pamir range by Colonel J. E. Gordon, who writes :— 
‘TI brought the specimen myself from the Pamir range. I could 
have got a perfect new head of Ovis poli, 61 inches; but I preferred 
to take the old head, 653 inches, believing that no one would credit 
me if I merely told of the latter. I could not carry both.” 
The edges of the horns are rounded for the first half of their 
length, especially the fronto-orbital. The surfaces are all slightly 
convex along the basal curve of the horns, but become flatter in the 
median curve, the nuchal surface becoming concave in the terminal 
curve. 
g. This specimen (frontlet and horns) was also sent home by 
Colonel Gordon from the same locality. It belongs to a younger 
animal than the preceding. The fronto-nuchal edge is very pro- 
minent, the fronto-orbital edge rounded, and the nuchal edge sharply 
defined. The nuchal surface is concave, the frontal surface flat, and 
the orbital surface slightly convex. 
h. Imperfect skull and horns, brought home by Captain Chapman 
during the Yarkund Expedition, also from the Pamir range. It 
represents an animal about the same age as g, and agrees with it in 
every particular. 
a. Perfect skull (excepting lower jaw) and horns of a young male, 
probably about 2 years and 3 months old, procured through our 
