MAMMALIA. 
83 
genera? on i s ^ ee P in the P. Z. S. for 1871 is unfortunately far from accurate. 
' ma ginary and ?, Ur ls mu °b too rufous 
badly draw^ th^ ere " 
* 0,1 g bushy tail ° ilcul Ui Lue U!1L mign appears to Deiong xo re, anci xo represenx a 
Parts should be rmJ! lea ^ a ^> which is quite short, being indistinct. The white of the lower 
the crest along the back of the neck is entirely 
j’aaiy drawn, that 7? ^ n ° b ^ acb ^ ne a i° n S the back in any of the skins sent. The tail is so 
° n g bushy tail <-i. l ° bair of the left thigh appears to belong to it, and to represent a 
■* ri giual sketch was' 6 ] 1 sdlcm bl come further up the flanks ; the horns are ill drawn. The 
l(! plate made se^ .7 b ' <dorud Gordon, who informs me that the draughtsman who prepared 
' v °odcut 
Excellent fi^* ^ maberxad iterations in the drawin: 
Mai 
rc ° Polo . 2 
I here 
of tliis wild sheep and of its horns are given by Severtzoff (1. c.) ; a 
s plate of the adult male is added to the last edition of Yule’s 
a Ptain Bidduh7 ^ 1 -i ^ ® ood woodcuts of the horns and skull from a specimen procured by 
According ^ dcssrs - V. and B. Brooke’s paper. 
’ Pastern r iq n .|- k ® Ve rtzoff, Q karelini inhabits a large area in the Thian-Shan range north 
a plisky Altai 6S &n ’ and ex tends thence northward into the Semiretchinsk Altai and 
Sir Y g 
r**® a observ ® that a specimen from near Kashghar sent to England by Colonel 
PP e ars to bav e mucdl greater extent of white on the lower sides and haunches than 
e xisted in either of Severtz off’s specimens. 
%th, P 
3, 4.. 
p. 54 
52. Ovis poli. 
2 - 8 .. 
As 
1840, p . 62; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, vii, p. 195, PI. IV, figs. 1, 2, 
P-04 ll7’ Cat ' Mam ' B ‘ M -> Ungulata Furcipeda, p. 165 (1852) ; Cat. Rum. Mam. R. M., 
A nn> '^^-Severtznff, Turk. Jev., PP . 84-102, 149, PI. II, III, Y, figs. 1, 2, VI, fig. 1; 
— "Y andT 1310, Ser. 4, xviii, pp. 210, 220. — Biddulph, P. Z. S., 1875, p. 157. 
p. l6 g U Bro °be, P. Z. S., 1875, p. 514.— Marco Polo’s travels, Yule’s edition, 1871, i, 
17 • ft. ; T ld edition ’ 1875 > b PP- 18, 185.— Prejevalski, Pet. Mitt., Erg. lift., No. 53, pp. 5, 
fe, PP . 8». 
Kuchkdr m i ’ ° Urne 'y to Source of Oxus, p. 241 (edition of 1872). 
a e ’ mesh > female, 3 in Wakhan (Trotter.) 
;u "°d in fUo „ l^h'd in the notes on O. Icarelini, no specimens of this magnificent sheep 
the — 11 v xvf. Stoliczka when it was received by the Indian Museum, 
no 
rem n : ab '° a d 
a n, n °d in tb„ „ lJL LUU nr >tes c 
do bau §b f roin t] ^ lection niade by Dr 
Sir ij tba l be b 1 . 0l , a ? C<)Uribs § XYen by the natives who accompanied liim, there can be 
<ai glas Eorsy t] 1 ' + 11 awa y two heads from the Pamir. One of these was presented by 
W° rtUnat <% fo ° dnd bin Museum at South Kensington. 
p ;i ])^ C)n ’ a ppear to bv '"' ads ^ roin Ibe Pamir, brought back by different members of the 
idem ■ • d ' bes ° beads^ 6 exam ined by Sir Y. Brooke, and the dimensions are given in his 
,j 0Ur ltl(l( b p| u , s ^ ' VGre com pared with the types originally named by Blyth and fully 
j e t y . to the soured? W&S Old otnally described from specimens obtained by Wood in his 
/ IS bxr from c 7 ■ * ' lC bdxus - The heads from the Pamir are consequently typical. 
ar elini, jj e ^ aui whether Stoliczka noticed the differences between this sheep and 
c , of course, no opportunity of comparing specimens. Only a single 
! pT. 1 *’ Z - s -’ 1875, p. 540; 1876, p. 415. 
Edm°nof l 875ip . 186 
Cpnp 
1 die guch , ram, mish, ewe ; Persian for both wild and tame sheep. 
