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N. — Ovis canadensis nivicola. 



Ovis nivicola, EschschoUz, Zool. Atlas, p. i, pi. i, 1829 ; Severtnow, 

 Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, pp. 86, 153, 1873, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 208, 1876 ; BrooTce, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 521 ; Ouillemard, ibid. 1885, p. 675 ; Biddulph, 

 ibid. p. 679 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 249, 1896. 



0\\s inontanus, Middendorff, Beise Zool. p. 116, 1851, nee ScJireber. 



Ovis canadensis nivicola, LydehTter, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Ooats, 

 p. 221, pi. xxiiA, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 297, 1912; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 396, 1912. 



Typical locality eastern Kamchatka. 

 General characters very similar to those of dalU and 

 stonei, but ears still shorter, blunter, and more thickly haired, 

 a shorter face, longer coat, and relatively small rump-patch ; 

 general colour slaty grey, or grey-fawn. Good horns measure 

 from 34 to 39 j inches in length, and from 13^ to 14^ in 

 girth. 



83. 2. 10. 2. Skin, mounted. Near Petropaulski, Kam- 

 chatka; collected by Dr. Dybowski. Also skull of same 

 specimen. Purchased, 1883. 



1. 11. 22. 3. Skin, mounted (winter coat). Kamchatka. 

 Presented hy St. George Littledale, Esq., 1901. 

 1. 11. 22. 4. Skull, with horns. Kamchatka. 



Same history. 

 1. 11. 22. 5. Skull, with horns. Kamchatka. 



Same history. 

 1. 11. 22. 6. Skull, with horns, female. Kamchatka. 



Same history. 

 88. 2. 20. 19. Skull, with horns. Kamchatka. 



By exchange ivith St. Petershurg Museum, 1888. 

 88. 2. 20. 20. Skull, with horns. Kamchatka. 



Same history. 

 0. 10. 16. 4. Skin. Kamchatka. 



Presented hy St. George lAttledale, Esq., 1900. 



0.— Ovis canadensis borealis. 



Ovis borealis, Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. viii, art. 2, 

 p. 153, 1873 ; Peters, Monatsber. Ah. Berlin, 1876, p. 180 ; Bunge 

 and Toll, Exped. Neusibir. Inseln und Jena-Lande, p. 84, 1886 ; 

 Nehring, Tundren und Steppen, p. 36, 1890; Allen, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xx, p. 293, 1904 ; Matschie, Apipendix to 

 P. Niedieck's Kreuzfahrten im Beringmeer, p. 236, 1907. 



