i64 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



In Ladak the Hunia type appears to be repre- 

 sented by a medium-sized, white-fleeced, and white- 

 faced short-tailed sheep, in which the horns are 

 much like those of the Hunia, but yellow instead 

 of black. 



There is also a smaller dirty white short-tailed 

 sheep in Ladak, in which the face, horns, limbs, 

 and under-parts are black. The horns approxi- 

 mate to the Hunia type, but form less than one 

 complete turn. Specimens of both these sheep, 

 collected in Leh by Mr. Douglas Carruthers, 

 were presented to the Natural History branch 

 of the British Museum by Mr. H. J. Elwes in 

 1912. 



Sheep apparently more or less allied to the 

 Hunia, if we may judge by their horns alone, 

 occur to the north-west and north of Ladak 

 and Tibet. The British Museum, for instance, 

 possesses the skull and horns of a ram from 

 Yarkand, presented by Mr. A. O. Hume in 1891, 

 in which the horns are essentially of the Hunia 

 type, although larger. And in the same collec- 

 tion is a skull, with the horns, of a very fine 

 ram, collected in Mongolia by Mr. Carruthers 

 and presented by Mr. Elwes. In this specimen 

 the horns, which measure 30^ inches in length 

 and S^ in girth, with a tip-to-tip interval of 25 

 inches, are very much of the Hunia type, but 

 larger and lighter coloured. They closely resemble 



