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In the paper cited above I provisionally identi- 

 fied with the Kulja argali the skull and horns of an 

 argali shot by Mr. Littledale at Tarbagatai, which 

 is considerably to the north of Kulja, in the Altai. 

 Tarbagatai is, however, separated from the moun- 

 tains north-east of Kulja by a strip of low-lying 

 country, which forms a gap in the highlands through 

 which such animals as the saiga antelope are able to 

 pass. It therefore seems quite likely that the Tar- 

 bagatai argali may represent a distinct race. In 

 the skull presented by Mr. Littledale to the British 

 Museum the horns measure 48 inches in length, 

 with a girth of 17 and a tip-to-tip interval of 40 

 inches. In another Tarbagatai specimen shot by 

 Mr. A. B. Worthington, the length of the horns is 

 51 and the girth 17J inches. These measurements 

 seem to indicate a rather thicker-horned sheep than 

 the Kulja argali. 



Allied to the Kulja race but of much smaller size, 

 is an argali from the Karatau (Black Mountains) of 

 Bokhara, to which Severtzow gave the name O. 

 nigrimontana, but which may now be known as 

 O. amnion nigrimontana. In a head brought home 

 by Mr. D. Carruthers the horns measure only 35f 

 inches in length, with a girth of \o\, and a tip- 

 to-tip interval of 24 inches. The horns of this 

 specimen agree essentially in general characters 

 with those of the Kulja race. The diminutive size 

 of this, the most westerly representative of the 



