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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIl : 
to the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow. (Bullet, de Mosc. 
1841, p. 563.) 
“ I spent some time on the mountains of Tschingis Taou in the Kir- 
guisian Steppes, to the east of the district Karkaralinsk, where I observed 
some very remarkable animals, which are known by the name Arkhari, 
or Mountain Sheep [Ovis ammon). I have killed many of these, and 
among others, a male of almost eight puds. The Arkhates and Tschingis 
mountains are the true country of these animals ; and I think that those 
of Corsica and Sardinia are a different species.” 
According to Pallas, the Argali was distinguished by the Kirgis-tatars 
by the name Arkar ; since, however, this was found also in the Altai, 
therefore that Arkhari, which was compared with the Mujion, must 
perhaps rather be Ovis orientalis, or the new species of Brandt. 
The Mountain Sheep of Cabool, described by Dr. Lord in Burnes’ 
Cabool, p. 384, appears, so far as I can gather from the indistinct 
account of the direction of the horns, rather to belong to the Mujlons 
than to the Argalis. Horns three-sided, with anterior angle, the longest 
side behind, the shortest at the top of head ; toward the root they become 
somewhat four-cornered, whilst, on the fore-side, a knob is observable. 
They are whitish light brown, cross-rooted; above this, at spaces of 
from four to six inches, with a cleft or channel. At the root the ante- 
rior angles stand about three inches asunder, the posterior are so near, 
that the little finger can scarcely be inserted between them ; at a short 
distance from their origin they begin to turn backwards, and end twisting 
round spirally towards the front. Nose convex ; lachrymal groove large ; 
no hoof grooves. Colour fulvous, somewhat bay ; haunches mixed with 
grey, behind with a stroke of dirty white, which passes under the belly ; 
head grey ; a white or greyish beard under the chin, which passes on 
towards the breast, of an almost black hue ; body 4' 10" ; tail 3|^" ; 
height of shoulders 3' 2^" ; horns, according to the twisting, 2' 8" : 
inhabits, in great numbers, the mountains north of Cabool, which form 
a part of the great Hindu Kusch : is called Gosfund-i-koh (Mountain 
Sheep) ; should also be called Buz-i-koh (Mountain Goat). 
A remarkable new species of Goat has been found in the Caucasus. 
Only two species of Capra have hitherto been known from these moun- 
tains : a third has now been described, under the name jEgoceros Pal- 
lasii, by Bouillier in the Bullet, de Mosc. 1841, p. 910, and figured in 
tab. 11. According to the description, the head is very much like that 
of a Sheep ; no lachrjrmal grooves ; under the chin is a beard 3^- inches 
long. The horns black, wrinkled, moderately thick, semicircular behind, 
and falling down externally, but afterwards the tips turn upwards and 
inwards ; at the base they are almost triangular, in the middle roundish, 
compressed towards the tip. Colour of the whole wool chestnut brown. 
The female has no beard, and only small horns with slight curve. The 
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