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GREAT GAME ANIMALS. 



[Case 46.] the Tibetan 0. hodgsoni (1058). The former inhabits mountainous 

 country at an elevation of from 3,000 to 4,000 feet, where the 

 slopes are covered with thin forest ; but the Tibetan Argali is found 

 at elevations of over 13,000 feet; on open and rolling country. 

 Although the old males are very wary and difficult to approach., 

 the females and young males wander in large herds, and exhibit 

 much less wariness. The Siberian Argali is the largest of all the 

 wild Sheep, and has the most massive horns. A mounted specimen 

 in the summer coat, presented by Mr. St. George Littledale, and 

 a head, the gift of Major C. S. Cumberland (fig. 8), as well as 

 numerous skulls, are exhibited. An allied species is Littledale's 

 Sheep (O. littledalei, 1059) of the Kuldja district — represented by a 

 head presented by Mr. Littledale — in which the shape and direction 

 of the horns are different, while the muzzle is white. The Saiar 

 Sheep (O. sairensis, 1 080) of the Saiar or Jair Mountains, is a white- 

 muzzled species of smaller size, represented in the collection by three 

 mounted examples shot and presented by Mr. Littledale. 



Fig. 7. 



Skull and Horns of Marco Polo's Sheep (Ovis poli). 



Marco Polo's Sheep) This magnificent wild Sheep (1061) is nearly 

 allied to the Argalis, irom which it is mainly 

 Ovis poli. distinguished by the more slender and dis- 



[Case 46.] tinctly angulated horns of the rams, which form a very open 

 spiral (fig. 7), and the colour of the coat. In habits it closely 

 resembles the Tibetan Argali, but it frequents a less barren 

 country than the latter, the undulating Pamirs being covered in 

 summer with luxuriant grass. In Turki the males are called 

 Kulja, or Gulja, and the females Arkar. The somewhat smaller 

 Sheep from the Thian Shan range described as Ovis karelini is 

 only a race of the Pamir species. Marco Polo's Sheep, which is 



