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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Hodgson's name altogether and adopt Blyth's 0. burrhel for this wild sheep, but the spelling 

 is very erroneous, and, on the whole, it appears as well to keep the name nahura. 



In his original description, Hodgson figured and described the skull of a young Ovis hodg- 

 soni, which he supposed to be that of the male of his O. nayaur, but the type of the latter 

 species was a female which he had alive. 



The only skin obtained from the Kuenlun by Dr. Stoliczka, that of a fine ram, represented 

 on Plate XIV, closely resembles the animal found in Sikkim. It also agrees precisely with 

 specimens from the North- West Himalayas. 



The locality at which the Kuenlun O. nahura was obtained is beyond the previously 

 known range of the animal. It has not hitherto been found further west ; but Prejevalski 

 obtained it on the Altyn-tagh, south of Lob Nor. According to Jerdon it is unknown in 

 the Himalaya west of the Sutlej, and is replaced in Ladak and the neighbouring regions 

 by 0. vignei. This, however, is not quite correct. Adams has mentioned 1 that 0. nahura 

 is found in the Nubra valley in Northern LacMk, and I learn from Dr. Cayley that it is 

 met with in most parts of Ladak, though it becomes rare to . the westward, and that so far 

 from being replaced by O. vignei, the two species are sometimes found occupying the same 

 valleys. 



The bharal has a considerable range to the eastward ; it is common in Northern Sikkim, 

 and it has recently been obtained by Pere David in Moupin, and a specimen from that locality 

 has been figured by A. Milne-Edwards, 1. c. The plate represents a young male, but 

 although the general colouration corresponds with that of the western Tibetan species, the 

 curve of the horns appears somewhat different, for they rise more above the head in the Mou- 

 pin animal. 



54. Capua sibieica. 



Meyer, Zool. Annal, I. 397, (1794) — Ehrenberg-., Symb. Phys., dee. II, fol. mm. — Wagner, Schreber 

 Saugtb. v, pp. 1256, 1297 (1836)— Supp. Pt. iv, p. 490.— Gray, List Spec. Mam. B. M. (1843), 

 p. 167.— Cat. Ung. Fur. (1852), p. 150.— Cat. Rum. Mam. (1872), p. 52.— Blytb, Cat. Mam. As. 

 Soc. Mus., p. 176.— Jerdon, Mam. Ind., p. 292.— Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., p. 102 ; Aun. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., Ser. 4, xviii, p. 333. 



Ibex alpium sibiricarum, Pallas, Spie. Zool., xi, p. 31 (1776). 



Aigoceros ibex, Pall., Zoogr. Ros. As., i, p. 224. 



Capra sakeen, Blytb, J. A. S, B., xi, 1842, p. 283. 



JEgoceros slept, Wagner, Sebreb. Saugtb. Supp. iv, p. 491 (1844). 



Capra himalayana, Gray, Cat, Uug. Fur. B. M. (1852), p. 150.— Adams, P, Z. S., 1858, p. 523. 



Capra skyn, Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., p. 102. — Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., Ser, 4, xviii, p, 334. — Prejevalski, Pet. 



Mitb., Erg. Hft., No, 53, p, 5. From Kulja, &c,, p, 45. 

 TeJcJce, $ Kaljdk, ? Kasbghar. 

 Bang $ , buz $ , Wakban, 2 



1*3, £, heads, 4, 5, skins of young <J, with horns, but without skulls; 6-8, $, skins with skulls; 9, skeleton, head 

 wanting ; (all without labels, except one female from Tarn, Sanjii valley ; the others are probably from the 

 Thian-Shan range near Kasbghar). 



Of this animal, as in the case of Ovis harelini, all the best specimens appear to have dis- 

 appeared from the collection, and there is not a single skin of an adult male. This is greatly 



1 P. Z. S., 1858, p. 527. 



4 1 am indebted to Captain Trotter and Captain Biddulph for these names. The Kashghar name is fronj Y)x. Stoliczka's di.iry, 



