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outer side of ears grey ; tail whitish. Front and outer side 

 of fore-legs above knees blackish tawny, and a streak of 

 same down front of shank below white knees ; elsewhere 

 lower part of fore-legs and the whole of lower part of hind- 

 lecfs white. A stronc; black thioat-ruff, with some brownish 

 yellow hairs ; and long blackish hair on the neck, descending 

 to the chest. In summer the general colour changes to 

 chestnut, with almost complete obliteration of saddle-patch. 



The Laristan sheep, of which there is no specimen in the 

 collection, is provisionally allowed specific rank. 



Y. OVIS YIGNEI. 



Ovis vignei, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1840, p. 70 ; Oray, List 

 Mamm. Brit. Mtis. p. 169, 1843 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, 

 p. 127, pi, Ixxix; Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Jfoscow, vol. viii, 

 pt. 2, p. 153, 1873 ; Brool^e, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 526 ; 

 Sierndale, Mamm. India, p. 435, 1884; W. L. Sclater, Cat. 

 Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 138, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. 

 India, Mamm. p. 497, 1891; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 

 xvii, p. 5, 1894 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 250, 1896, ed. 6, 

 p. 408, 1910 ; Lydek'ker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Qoats, p. 166, 

 pi. xii, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 99, 1907, The Sheep 

 and Its Cousins, p. 261, 1912, Gat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. 

 p. 9, 1913 ; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 859. 



Ovis montana, Cunningham, Ladah, p. 199, 1854, neo Schreber. 



Caprovis (Musimon) vignei. Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 172, 

 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 55, 1872. 



Musimon vignei, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 191, 1855 ; 

 Severtzoiv, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, p. 62, 1873. 



Caprovis vignei, Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 526 ; Gray, Hand- 

 List Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 130, 1873. 



Urin, Ueial, or Sha. 



Typical locality Astor. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height from 32 to 36 inches. 

 Horns strongly wrinkled, curling forwards by sides of face in 

 " amnion " fashion, generally forming little more than one 

 complete turn, with the tips inclined inwards, although in 

 some cases with slight terminal eversion ; females with short 

 upright horns. Throat of rams with a large and more or less 

 black ruff of long stiff hairs, commencing behind the chin in 

 two lobes, which soon unite to extend as a continuous fringe 

 down the middle of the throat to the chest. Tail short, 

 general colour of upper-parts rufous grey or fawn in summer, 

 greyish brown in winter ; uuder-parts, limbs, buttocks, and 



