CAPKIN^ 101 



E.— Ovis ammon sairensis. 



Ovis sairensis, Lydekher, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 185, fig. 



1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 113, Great and Small Game of 



India, etc. p. 127, 1900 ; NoacTc, Zool. Anz. 1902, p. 696. 

 Ovis ammon sairensis, Lydehher, Field, vol. cxiii, p. 117, 1909, The 



Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 275, 1912 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 



ed. 6, p. 403, 1910. 



Typical locality the Saiar, Sair, or Jair Mountains of 

 Zungaria. 



Considerably smaller than hodgsoni, but with relatively 

 tnassive horns, which form rather more than a complete 

 circle, and measure (in the few specimens known) from 

 45^ to 47 inches in length, and 14^ to 15^ in length. In 

 summer the whole of the upper-parts, with the exception 

 of the white muzzle, as well as the upper portion of the legs, 

 are reddish fawn, there being no rump-patch, while most of the 

 under-parts are darker. Females with a dark dorsal streak. 



The range includes the Semitau, north of the Sair 

 Mountains, but the sheep, with a large white rump -patch, 

 from the Irtish Valley, north of Lake Balkash, referred to 

 this race by the present writer in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1900, 

 is probably distinct. 



90. 4. 30. 3. Skin, mounted. Saiar Mountains, Zungaria. 

 Type. Presented hy St. George Littledalc, Usq., 1890. 



90. 4. 30. 4. Skin, immature, mounted. Saiar Moun- 

 tains. Same history. 



90. 4. 30. 5. Skin, female, mounted. Saiar Mountains. 



Same history. 



90. 4. 30. 5, a. Skull of last specimen. 



90. 4. 30. 6. Skeleton, mounted. Saiar Mountains. 



Same history. 



90. 4. 30. 7. Skull. Saiar Mountains. Same history. 



2. 6. 2. 3-4. Two skins. Same locality. 



Same donor, 1902. 



The following specimens have hee7i provisionally referred to 

 this race, hut are prolably distinct : — 



0. 3. 26. 2. Skull, with horns, and skin. Puchtawa, 

 Irtish Valley. Presented hy the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 1900. 



0. 3. 26. 3. Skull, female, with horns, and skin. 

 Puchtawa. Same history. 



