roin near Tokmak S ^ eC * es s ^ lee P described by Severtzoff from Western Turkestan, 0. heinsi 
ri j°Untain S) north * n ° 1 ^ 1 °f Lake Issyk, and 0. nigrimontana from the Karatau or black 
j' ^'°d to 0. p 0 ii ^ le or Jaxartes, are smaller forms, but apparently more nearly 
)a % be fonnd tk + • ^ arc ^ n '^ than to any other species of wild sheep. It may not impro- 
Ml, 'rely ra Ceg ^ m 1 a Vr mediate varieties occur, and that all these forms of wild sheep are 
,l '° those closely , eSS C01£1 l , letely differentiated. It should also be noticed that not only 
0 s P e cifi c distinction ‘ S ^ eC ^ eS ^^higuished on very small data, but that Dr. SevertzolFs ideas 
„ The other kn ' ^ 1 ^ t ^ uce him to class apart forms which other naturalists do not separate. 
<>ltris , are 0. (m , ° W ^ en hral Asiatic wild sheep of the true Argali type, omitting doubtful 
auria, but now ( vera ~0. argali, 2 Pall.) formerly inhabiting the Altai mountains and 
^Qinorth of j> e ]. SU ^ 0Se d t°l he almost confined to part of Northern Mongolia, O. jubata 3 
Pateau, and 0 brooh m ^°^ son ^ (the O. ammon of Anglo-Indians generally) from the Tibetan 
l0, l to the Am , ^ v0i ’ unc °rtain derivation, besides O. nivicola 6 from Kamtschatka, nearly 
not W group of 1U ' ari . wiontana. 0. vignei, 0. gmelini, O. cycloceros and their allies form 
species found in South-Western Asia and the Mediterranean area. 
The two 
MAMMALIA. 
85 
other 
0 53. OVIS NAHTJRA, PI. XIV. 
• n °mur, Hodg s A p 
• *aioor t H od ’ rt - C h p. 135, partim. 
• Eiytb V 7 « V ' 1885 ’ ^ 
P. 868. ’ * 1840, p. 67.— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, vii, p. 248.— J. A. S. B., 1841, x, 
® b ' ls Kahura, JJodo. 
P * eu dok nakoor 7)’ ^ Gray > List - Spec. Mam. B. M. (1843), p. 170. 
(l862 )— Adamsp’ J ’ A ‘ S -B-> 1846, xv, p. 343.— Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M., Ung. Fur., p. 177 
nahura BWu Z ' S ' 5 1858 = P- 527.— Prejcvalski, Pet. Mitt., Erg. Hft., No. 53, pp. 5, 17. 
a J.,’ Cat Mam. Mus. 
0, 
A At ■ i ' '' iu ' u ‘- -‘-vrus. As. Soc., p. 178. — Jerdon, Mam. Ind., p. 296. 
“e-Edwards, Reck. 
Mam., I, p. 357, PI. LXVIII, LXIX. 
* ’ ” ear Tam ’ S -iu valley, Kuenlun range. 
(j a ^hieal with n ^ Jerdon, Blyth appears to have ultimately considered his Ovis burrhel 
^“'our^^'^ough at tat he looked 
The 
°ld^ e ^ the laat S T e ^ n various ways' — nayaur, nahoor, nahur, and nahura. I have 
beep \ nartlc > Was c 0 * '^ USe ^ has been adopted by J erdon and Blyth, and because nayaur , the 
V o| y'^ (ui altogeth , e .° ° ( hy Hodgson himself. I may add that the name appears to have 
c °lour a nd U> aitil °ugh at first he looked upon it as distinct on account of the 
rounded horns, but these differences are apparently due to age and 
fo r Hi, Bt° 2 m. ^T’ I°r Hodgson in his original paper in the Asiatic Transactions, 
and Jr SQla her Hinf^ states that the native name for the Ovis ammonia bharal, and 
° a gson , a ^ aa sheep nayaur. In truth, the reverse is the case, as is well known, 
have confounded the 
two. Perhaps it would be more convenient to drop 
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Peters W ’ P ' 21 1 
Birth p K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 177, Pis. 1-4. 
Ward,’ P Z s’ r 840 ’ P ' 65 ‘ 
Esch 7 S ” 1874 > P . 143. 
- Zool. Atlas, p. 71 , (i 8 29.) 
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