82 
SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
“ The following are measurements taken from a full-grown male, though not the largest in the Mh 
collection : — 
Total length from between the horns to tip of tail 
Length of head ...... 
Tail (including the hair at tip 1| inches long) . 
Distance between snout and base of ear (the eye lies 
line) ...... 
Distance between base of ear and the eye 
Distance between snout and eye 
Distance from the contact of horns to snout 
Breadth between the anterior angle of eyes 
Length of ear in front .... 
Height of shoulder (the hair being smoothed, 
the middle of the hoof at the side) . 
Girth round the breast .... 
Length of one horn along the periphery . 
Circumference of one horn at base . 
Distance between the tips 
ielow this 
beginning from 
connecting 
the edge of 
Inches. 
62- 
13-25 
5- 5 
12-75 
3 - 25 
8-5 
12 - 
6- 
4- 75 
44- 
51-5 
48- 
15 - 
38- 
“ The colour of full-grown females does not differ essentially from that of the males, except that the 
The snout is sometimes brown, sometimes almost eat 11 ' 
The dark ridge along the tail is 
have much less white on the middle of the upper neck 
white, the dark eye-pits becoming then particularly conspicuous 
scarcely traceable. 
In size, both sexes of Ovis poll appear to be very nearly equal ; but the head of 
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the female * ^ 
massive, and the horns, as in allied species, are comparatively small : the length of the horns of one 0 ^ 
largest females obtained is 14 inches along the periphery, the distance at the tips being 15 inches, and $ 
base a little more than 1 inch. The horns themselves are much compressed ; the upper anterior \ y 
wanting on them j they curve gradually backwards and outwards towards the tip, though they do not u ea 
complete even a semicircle. ^ 
“ In young males, the horns at first resemble in direction and slight curvature those of the female, but 
are always thicker at the base and distinctly triangular. j 
“ The length of the biggest horn of a male along the periphery of curve was 56 inches, and the g l ‘ e< 
circumference of a horn of a male specimen at the base, 181 inches. ^ 
“ Mr. Blyth, the original describer of Ovis poll from its horns, was justified in expecting, h' 0111 
enormous size, a correspondingly large-bodied animal ; but in reality such does not appear to exist. An 1 
the distance between the tips of the horns seems to be generally about equal to the length of the bod)') ^ 
although the horns are very much larger, but not thicker than those of the Ovis ammon of the Himalaya' ^ 
equally massive, the body of the latter seems to be comparatively higher. Still it is possible that the ^ 
of the Pamir may stand higher than the specimens described, which were obtained from the Tlnau- 
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range. 
Large flocks of Ovis poli were observed on the undulating high plateau to the south of the Chadu 
in 
th« 
the 
where grass vegetation is abundant. At the time the officers of the Mission visited this ground, > 
beginning of January, it was the rutting season. The characters of the ground upon the Pamir and u P oU 
part of the Thian-Shan inhabited by these wild sheep are exactly similar.” 
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I find from the skins preserved, that the dark mark above the tail is not const* 111 ^ 
present even in males ; in females Dr. Stoliczka notices that it is deficient. Some spc cllia 
are far more hoary, especially on the neck and flanks, than others. ^ 
All the skins of Ovis ltarelini obtained by Dr. Stoliczka appear to have been S \ tO 
winter. The animals from which they were taken were, I believe, brought down fr° ze 
Kashghar. 
