OVIS. 



133 



b. Large forms with enormous horns of which the points are 

 always, directed more or less horizontally away from each 

 other ; with antorbital pit very shallow. 



c. Space between the horn cores flat ; the horns describe a 

 complete circle at least ; and the proportion of their 

 basal circumference to their total length is as 1-3. 



O. poli, p. 133. 



c^. Space between the horn cores concave ; the horns seldom 

 describe a complete circle and are very massive at the 

 base, i.e., the proportion of the basal circumference to the 

 total length of the horn is as 1-2 , O. hodgsoni, p. 136. 



b. Smaller forms with smaller horns, with generally converg- 

 ing points and a deep antorbital pit. 



d. "Horns with points hardly converging, with the frontO" 

 orbital edge much rounded ', beard and mane very 

 small; animal more or less reddish. O, vignii, p. 139. 



(P. Horns with converging points, fronto-orbital edge sharp ; 

 beard and mane markedly developed. 



O. cycloceros, p. 138. 



a^ No antorbital pits ■. . . . . O. nahoor, p. 140. 



Ovis poli. 



Ovis polii, Blyik P. Z. S., p. 62 (1840) ; id. J. A. S. B., x, p. 858 ; id. Ann. 

 Mag. N. H., vii, pi. v, fig. 1-4 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 176 ; Sclater^ 

 P. Z.S., i860, p. 443 ; SevertzoffTurk. Jevnot, pp. 84-102, 149, pis. ii, iii, v, 

 figs. 1-2, vi, fig. i; Stoliczka P. Z. S., 1874, p. 425, pi. liii ; Sir V. Brooke and 

 B. Brooke P. Z. S., 1875, p. S>4; Biddulph ibid, p. 1S7; Blanford ibid, 

 p. 540 ; Grote P. Z. S., 1876, p. 414 ; Severizoff Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xviii, 

 pp. 171, 210 & 220; Przewalsky, Peters. Mitlh. Erzb., xii 1878, pp. 5, 

 \n'- Blanford Yarkand Mamm., p. 83; Biddulph P. A. S. B., 1879, 

 p. 280 ; Scully P. Z. S., 1881, p. 209 ; Blanford P. Z. S., 1884, p. 326, with 

 figures. .... 



Ovis karelini, Severteoff Turk.fevnot,-g'p. 84-102, 149, pis. 1, iv, figs. 3.4,vi, 

 figs. 3-4 ; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xviii, pp. 171 , 210, 217 ; Sir V. Brooke 

 and B. Brooke P. Z. S., 187S, p- S'S j Blanford Yarkand Mamm., p. 80. 



Distribution. — This large sheep was iirst found on the Pamir 

 where its occurrence is mentioned by Marco Polo (Yule's edition, i, 

 pp. 18, 185, 2nd ed, 1875); it was first obtained by Wood near 

 the sources of the Amu Daria and has also been obtained thence 

 by Lockhart (I. M.) and Charles Ellis (Blanford) ; it also occurs 

 in the Thian Shan Range and all round Lake Issyk (Stoliczka and 

 Severtzofi). It is noted from the Juldus valley on the north and the 

 Altyntag on the south of the Gobi by Przewalsky. Scully asserts 

 that it must be considered an Indian animal since it occurs as far 

 south as the Shimshal Pamir just north of Gilgit and south of the 

 Mustagh Range. 



