1903.] MR. LYDEKKER ON AN ASIATIC WILD SHEEP. 103 
wrinkles very low and indistinct. The length of the horn is 
33 inches along the inner front angle, with a basal circumference 
of 11 inches, a basal width of 3 inches, and a basal depth of 
4 inches. 
The last two dimensions are considerably greater than in a 
skull of the Kelat Urial measured by Mr. Hume, in which the 
length along the curve is 35} inches. 
Text-fig. 10. 
Front view of skull and horns of adult ram of the Kopet-Dagh Umial. 
+ nat. size. 
The Kopet Dagh Urial decidedly appears to be a distinct form, 
connected with the typical Ovis vignei by means of the Punjab 
race of that species. On these grounds I regard it as a local race 
rather than a species; its name will accordingly be O. vignet arkal 
(or perhaps arcal). The suggestion of M. Dauvergne’, that this 
sheep is identical with the Kelat Urial, is not borne out by a 
comparison of the present specimen with a skull of that form in 
the British Museum, in which the angles of the horns are much 
rounded off. This leads me to think that the Kelat Urial 
(O. vignet blanfordi) is, after all, distinct from the Punjab 
animal, 
1 See p. 131 of my book on ‘Game of Europe, N.W. Asia, and America.’ 
