CHAPTER XIII 



TYPICAL WILD SHEEP OF ASIA AND AMERICA 



As wild sheep form the subject of several works ' 

 and numerous articles in scientific journals, they are 

 discussed much less fully in the present volume 

 than the domesticated breeds, of which the account 

 given in the preceding chapters is claimed to be 

 unique. 



In Asia wild sheep inhabit the Troodos moun- 

 tains of Cyprus, and the more or less continuous 

 mountain-chains extending from Anatolia on the 

 extreme west of Asia Minor, through Armenia, 

 Persia, Baluchistan, the north-west frontier districts 

 of India, Afghanistan, Bokhara, Turkestan, the 

 Altai, the Pamirs, the Himalaya, Tibet, the Tian 

 Shan, and Mongolia to the Yana and Kamchatka 

 in the extreme north-east. On the American side 

 of Bering Strait they reappear in Alaska, whence 

 they range southwards through the chain of the 

 Rocky Mountains to the highlands of Mexico. 



' E.g. Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, by the present writer, 

 London, 1908. The classification of the sheep there given is some- 

 what out of date, and an amended scheme, likewise by the present 

 writer, will be found in the sixth edition of Rowland Ward's Records 

 of Bi^ Came, London, 191 1. 



