1 7 4 Sheep
appears most probably that the Turkoman sheep is inseparable from the
race inhabiting the former districts. -
Distribution,—Typically the Salt Range of the Punjab, but extending to
the Cis-Indus Ranges of the Punjab and Sind, and thence into Afghanistan,
Southern Persia, and apparently Russian Turkestan.
c. K e l a t R a c e—Ovis v ig n e i b l a n fo r d i
Ov is blanfordi, Hume, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlvi. p. 327, pi. iv.
(1887); P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 639.
Characters.—Hornsyof male relatively large, with the two front angles
distinct, and the curve forming an open spiral, instead of lying almost or
quite in the same plane, as in the two preceding races ; the tips being thus-
very much further apart than is the case in the latter. Pelage apparently
unknown. The following dimensions of the type specimen are given
by Mr. Hume, the figures in the second column indicating the corresponding
measurements of a folly'""adult skull of-the Punjab race:—
Length of horns along the curve 35Ï 29L
Basal circumference of same 9 10 -
Interval between tips
l6i m
Greatest breadth of horn at base 2i
j 2
21
Greatest depth of horn at base . 4
3i IP3^
Distribution.—The neighbourhood of Kelat, in Northern Baluchistan
5. T he A r g a l i— Ovis am m o n
Capra ammon, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 97 (176 6 ); Fischer,
Synop. Mamm. p. 487 (1829).
Ovis argali, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fase. xi. p. 20^1777-80) ; Blasius,
Säugethiere Deutschlands, p. 468 ( 18 5 7 ); Radde, Reise Öst.-Siber. p„ 236
Wil d Ox e n , S h e e p , Goats . P l a t e XIV.
SIBERIAN ARGALI.
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