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the horns is almost immediately backwards,* and the 

 outer front angle is distinct. The general colour of the 

 upper-parts apparently is russet-yellow or foxy red, 

 with a dark purplish brown mark above the knees 

 and a darkish streak on the chest ; the spinal region 

 being darker than elsewhere. In the winter coat 

 there is a light saddle-patch, and the throat has a 

 short rufif, which is almost entirely chestnut and 

 black in colour, and thus quite different from that of 

 the urial. Although there is less white on the chin 

 and throat, the white areas and the dark flank-band 

 are probably much the same as in the Cyprian race. 



Of the Anatolian race {O. orientalis anatolica) 

 little is known in this country, and, owing to its 

 being in Russian, I am unfortunately unable to avail 

 myself of the information conveyed in Dr. Nasonov's 

 memoir. The skull represented in figs. 2 and 3 of 

 that memoir shows, however, that the horns are 

 much curved downwards. 



In 1900 Dr. A. Gunther^ described, under the 

 name of O. ophion urmiana, the frontlet and horns 

 of a sheep from one of the small islands (Koyun 

 Daghi) in Lake Urmi, Western Persia. In associ- 

 ating this sheep with the Cyprian, rather than with 

 the mainland forms of the red sheep, its describer 

 relied largely upon the rounding-off of the outer 

 front angle of the horns. On the other hand, a 



* See Nasonov, op. cit., p. 1276, fig. i. 

 » Journ. Linn. Soc. London, —ZooL, vol. xxvii. p. 374, 1900. 



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