276 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



Blanford.' The western end of the Tian Shan is, 

 however, a very long way from the Alatau ; and the 

 sheep from the former area are therefore probably 

 distinct from those of the latter. Unfortunately the 

 British Museum possesses no specimen of O. ammon 

 karelini, as this race should be called, from the 

 Alatau, and the only ones believed to belong to this 

 race with which I am acquainted are two skulls, 

 with horns, in the collection of Sir E. G. Loder, 

 at Leonard's Lee, Horsham. In the larger of these 

 (pi. xxii. fig. i) the length of the horns is 49J, the 

 girth 1 6 J, and the tip-to-tip interval 25^ inches;, 

 the corresponding dimensions of the smaller speci- 

 men being 45 J, 14J, and 34 inches. Although the 

 horns of these specimens are very like those of 

 the under-mentioned Kulja argali (pi. xxii. fig. 2), 

 they are of a rather thicker type, with a somewhat 

 less degree of lateral expansion, and a smaller 

 tip-to-tip interval ; but if Sir E. G. Loder's speci- 

 mens are the true karelini, they indicate the close 

 relationship between that race and the Kulja argali. 

 The race of the argali inhabiting the mountains 

 bordering the tributaries of the Hi valley on the 

 northern flank of the western Tian Shan, some 

 distance to the south-east of Kulja, or Hi, was 

 described by myself,^ on the evidence of a head 



' Scientific Results of Second Yarkand Expedition — Mammalia, 

 p. 80, Calcutta, 1878. 



' Proc, Zool. Sof., 1902, p. 80. 



