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The following specimens may represent a distinct race : — 

 76. 8. 7. 3. Skeleton, mounted. Cilician Taurus, Asia 

 Minor. Presented ly C. G. Banford, Esq., 1876. 



76. 8. 7. 4. Skeleton, female. Cilician Taurus. 



Same histm-ij. 



C— Ovis opientalis anatolica. 



(?) Ovis anatolica, Valenciennea, Compt. Bend. Ac. 8ci. Paris, 

 vol. xliii, p. 65, 1856 ; Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, 

 vol. viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873; Orevi, Zool. Qart. 1895, p. 367; 

 Matschie, Sitzher. Oes. nat. Freuncle, 1896, p. 99. 



Ovis orientalis anatolica, Nasonov, Bull. Ac. Sci. Si. Petersb. 1911, 

 p. 1277 ; Lydekker, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 257, 1912. 



Typical locality Anatolia. 



Unrepresented by skins in collection. Horns much 

 curved downwards. 



* *. Cast of frontlet and horns. Original from Anatolia. 

 Presented by J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1903. 



D. — Ovis opientalis urmiana. 



Ovis ophion var. urmiana, Gunther, Journ. Linn. Soc. — Zool. vol. 



xxvii, p. 374, 1900. 

 Ovis ophion urmiana, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Europe, 



etc. p. 131, 1901, Field, vol. oxiii, p. 242, 1909, The Sheep and Its 



Cousins, p. 257, 1912. 

 Ovis urmiana, Nasonov, Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 1911, p. 1281. 



Typical locality Koyun Daghi Island, Lake Urmi, Western 

 Persia. 



A relatively small race, with the front outer angle of 

 horns bevelled off, much in the same manner as in Cyprian 

 race. In a specimen figured by Nasonov (op. cit. p. 1283, 

 fig. 4) the horns are bent sharply downwards, with very little 

 backward inclination, so that their tips project much below 

 the plane of the upper cheek-teeth, instead of being nearly 

 continuous with the same. Probably there is a well-de^'eloped 

 throat-ruff in winter. 



99. 9. 13. 1. Skull, with horns.' Island in Lake Urmi, 

 Persia. Type. Presented hy B. S. Giinther, Esq., 1899. 



