6 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



A. ^Tibetan Arg-ali. 

 Ovis ammon hodgsoni. 



Ovis hodgsoni, BlytJi, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1840, p. 65 ; Blanford, Fauna 



Brit. India, Mamm. p. 494, 1891. 

 Ovis ammon hodgsoni, LydeJcJcer, Oame Animals of India, etc. p. 95, 



1907 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 399, 1910. 



8.— 12. 10. 31. 67. Skull, with horns. Ladak ; collected 

 by A. Dalgleish. In this specimen, which stands No. 14 in 

 Mr. Ward's list, the length of the horns is 46^, the girth 19j, 

 and the interval between the tips 20 inches ; the correspond- 

 ing dimensions in the record specimen being 57, 18f, and 

 29 inches. 



9.— 12. 10. 31. 68. Skull, with horns, Chantang, Eudok, 

 Western Tibet, near Pangong Lake. 



10.— 12, 10. 31. 69. Skull, with horns, Ma Chan, Gartok, 

 Western Tibet. 



11.— 12. 10. 31. 70. Skull, with horns, Hundes, Tibet. 



B.— Kashg-arian Arg-ali. 

 Ovis ammon humei, subsp. n. 



Ovis poli, StoliczJca, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874, p. 425, pi. liii, neo Blyth, 



1840 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 496, 1891, in 



part. 

 Ovis karelini, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 512 ; Blanford, Zool. 



2nd Yarlcand Mission, Mamm. p. 80, 1878 ; neo Severtzow, 



1873. 



The wild sheep obtained by the Second Yarkand Expedi- 

 tion from the north-west of Kashgar, on the flanks of the Tian 

 Shan, were identified by Stoliczka with 0. poll. Sir Victor 

 and Mr. Basil Brooke subsequently referred them to 0. luire- 

 lini, Severtzow, of which the typical locality is the Ala-tau, 

 north of Lake Issik (Issik Kul), in the Semiretchensk Altai, 

 although it was pointed out that the white rump-patch 

 is considerably larger than in the typical kaixiini. This 

 identification was accepted by Blanford in the " Zoology of 

 the Second Yarkand Mission," but in the " Fauna of British 

 India " he came to the conclusion that karcluti, as represented 

 by the Kashgarian specimens, was inseparable from poli. In 



