86 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
"Hodgson’s name altogether and adopt Blyth’s 0. bmrrhel for this wild sheep, but the sp e 
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 ' ^ 
soni, which he supposed to be that of the male of his 0. nayaur , but the type of the a 
species was a female which he had alive. p-d 
The only skin obtained from the Kuenlun by Dr. Stoliczka, that of a fine ram, repres 
on Plate XIY, closely resembles the animal found in Sikkim. It also agrees precisely 
specimens from the North-West Himalayas. . ^jy 
The locality at which the Kuenlun 0. nahura was obtained is beyond the pi’ eV1 ° ^ 
known range of the animal. It has not hitherto been found further west; but Preje' a ^ 
obtained it on the Altyn-tagh, south of Lob Nor. According to Jerdon it is unkno^. 
the Himalaya west of the Sutlej, and is replaced in Ladak and the neighbouring 
by 0. vignei. This, however, is not quite correct. Adams has mentioned 1 that 0. » a j s 
is found in the Nubra valley in Northern Laddk, and I learn from Dr. Cayley tto 
met with in most parts of Ladak, though it becomes rare to the westward, and tha s ,, 
from being replaced by O. vignei, the two species are sometimes found occupying the - 
valleys. _ . c;vki Jl1 ’ 
The bliaral has a considerable range to the eastward ; it is common m Northern ^y 
and it has recently been obtained by Pere David in Moupin, and a specimen from that l° c ^ 
has been figured by A. Milnc-Edwards, 1. c. The plate represents a young ma e > ^ 
although the general colouration corresponds with that of the western Tibetan specK’^^. 
curve of the horns appears somewhat different, for they rise more above the head in the 
pin animal. 
54. Capua sibirica. 
c c hr^' e 
Meyer, Zool. Annal., I. 397, (1794) — Ehrenberg., Symb. Phys., dee. II, fob mm. — Wagner, ^ 
Saugtb. y, pp. 1256, 1297 (1836)— Supp. Pt. iv, p. 490.— Gray, List Spec. Mam. B. M- ( ^ 
p. 167. — Cat. Ung. Fur. (1852), p. 150. — Cat. Rum. Mam. (1872), p. 52. — Blyth, Cat. ^ 11,11 
Soc. Mus., p. 176. — Jerdon, Mam. Ind., p. 292. — Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., p. 102; Aun. 
Hist., Ser. 4, xviii, p. 333. 
Ilex alpium sibiricarum, Pallas, Spic. Zoob, xi, p. 31 (1776). 
Aigoceros ibex, Pall., Zoogr. Ros. As., i, p. 224. 
Capra sa/ceen, Blytb, J. A. S, B., xi, 1842, p. 283. 
JEgoceros skyn, Wagner, Selireb. Saugth. Supp. iv, p. 491 (1844). 
Capra himalayana, Gray, Cat. Ung. Fur. B. M. (1852), p. 150. — Adams, P, Z. S., 1858, p,523- pet- 
Capra shyn, Severtzoff, Turk. Jcv., p. 102. — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser, 4, xviii, p, 334. — Prejevab ’ 
Mith., Erg. IU't., No, 53, p, 5. From Kulja, &c,, p. 45, 
TelcJce, $ Kaljdk, S Kashghar. 
Rang $ , buz ? , Wakhan,? ^ 
1-3, $, heads, 4, 5, skins of young $ , with horns, but without skulls; 6-8, ?, skins with skulls; 9, 
wanting ; (all without labels, except one female from Tam, Sanju valley ; the others are proba 
l'hian-Shan range near Kashghar). jjg' 
Of this animal, as in the case of Ovis Jcarelini, all the best specimens appear to 
appeared from the collection, and there is not a single skin of an adult male. This i s » 
1 P.Z. S., 1858, p.527. 
1 I am indebted to Captain Trotter and Captain Biddulph for these names. The Kashghar name is from Dr. Stoll 02 
