OVIS. 



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y. Skull, horns, ^ Khawja, Afghan. ]. E.T. Aitchison, 1886. 



skin. 



i. Skeleton ^ Zoological, Gardens, 18821 



/. Skin, skull $ Dizak, Beluchistan, W. T. Blanford. 



23-3-72. 

 m. PSkin, skull ShiraZj Persia Sir O. St. John. 



juv. 



n. Skin, skull 9 A. S. B. 



1/. Skull, and $ British Beluchistan E. J. Jones, 1889. 



horns. 



Ovis vignii. 



Ovis vignii, Blyth P. Z.S., p. 70 (1840); Wagner Hugel's Kaschmir,\v, 

 p. 581 ; Gray Cat. Mamm. B. M., iii, p. 172 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., 

 p. 175; Adams P. Z. S., 1858, p. 526; P. L Sclater P. Z.S., i860, p. 127, 

 wood-cut and pi. Ixxix ; Scully P. Z. S., 1881, p. 209; Sterndale Mamm. 

 Ind., p. 43S. ../ox 



Ovis montana, aptid Cunningham Ladak, p. 199, pi. vn (1854). 



Shapoo, Ladak; Sha, Thibet ; Oorin, Astor district. 



Dhtrihution. — Western Thibet and Ladak (Kinloch) extending 

 to Gilgit (Scully). 



There was formerly considerable confusion with regard to the 

 distinctions between this sheep and the Oorial ; for some time they 

 were considered identical until Sclater /. c. showed the distinctions 

 between the two ; the one (Ovis vignii) occurring only, as far as is 

 known, in Ladak and the upper valley of the Indus ; the other 

 having a wider distribution extending from the Punjab throughout 

 Afghanistan. 



a. Skin, skull $ Ladak (Strachey) ? 

 horns, 



Ih. Skull S 



juv. 



India Mus., London. 

 A. S. B. 



Ovis gmelini. 



Ovis gmelini, Blyth P. Z.S., p. 69 (1840) ; Blanford Persia,-p.ST, DanforA 

 and Alston P. Z. S., 1877, p. 276 ; id. P. Z. S., 1880, p. 55, with 6 figs. 



Ovis orientaWs, apud Kejtserling and Blasius Wirbelth. Europ., pp. S, 29 

 (1840) ; Gray Cat. Mamm. B. M., iii, p. 172. 



? Ovis anatolica, Valenciennes Comptes Rend., xliii, p. 65 (1856). 



Distribution. — The Elburz Mountains (Blanford), Erzeroom 

 (Blyth), the northern slopes of the Taurus, and central parts of Asia 

 Minor (Danford). 



a. Frontlet No history, A. S. B. 



6. Skull and No history, A. S. B. 



horns. 



c. Skull and $ Shameran Mts., N. of W. T. Blanford. 



horns, Teheran. 



d. Stuffed $ W. Rutledge (1869). 



