WILD SHEEP OF ASIA AND AMERICA 277 



presented to the British Museum by Mr. St. George 

 Littledale, in 1902, as a local race of sairensis, but 

 is now known as O. ammon littledalei. It is a large 

 sheep, with relatively long, thin horns (pi. xxii, fig. 2), 

 in which the maximum length ranges from about 

 55 to 58 inches, while the girth is about 17 inches 

 or rather more, and the tip-to-tip interval from 41 to 

 45 inches. In the typical specimen, which is the 

 one represented in the illustration, the horns do not 

 come up to these dimensions, the length being 51, 

 the girth i6f, and the tip-to-tip interval 41 inches. 

 This Kulja sheep has the same greyish brown fore- 

 head and white muzzle as its smaller Saiar relative, 

 but the ears are smaller and somewhat further 

 removed from the horns, while the latter are less 

 "nipped in" below the eyes than in the Altai race, 

 and show more of the inner surface when viewed 

 directly from the front. A white ruff is developed 

 on the throat and chest in the winter coat. 



In the original description it is stated that the 

 horns differ from those of the typical Altai argali 

 by rising from the skull at a much greater eleva- 

 tion, so as to be widely separated from the rather 

 small ears, instead of being partially overlapped 

 by them. 



The horns themselves are of a more massive 

 and less elongated type than those»of O. ammon 

 poll, and are markedly distinct from those of the 

 sheep from the western Tian Shan identified by 



