and Mongolia it lives at comparatively low elevations above the sea-
level.
Habits.—Although the habits of this sheep are doubtless in the main
very similar to those of the Tibetan race, a note by Mr. St. George l.ittlc-
dale with regard to one trait is worthy of quotation. This passage is' as
follows The sheep’s habit of disappearing in cavities and under rocks
from io a .m . until evening made the sport less interesting than the
pursuit of Ovis poli,.who is always ‘ on view,’ and even when hard hit the
extraordinary vitality of the beast not unfrequently enables him to escape
the hunter.”
b. M ongol ian R a c e—Ovis am m o n ju b a t a
Ovis jubata, Peters, Monatsbericht Akad. Berlin, 1876, p. 1 1 7 , pis.. i.-uv. ;
Prezewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 15 (1887).
Characters.—Apparently nearly allied to the Tibetan race, having horns
of a very similar type, and a distinct throat-ruff, which, like the face, is
yellowish-white. The white on the buttocks and hinder surfaces of the
legs is, however, more abundant and of a purer tint even than in the
Siberian race, the tail being wholly pure white.
Distribution.— Eastern Mongolia, to the north of Pekin. This sheep ||i
known to me only by the description and plate in Peters’s memoir.
c. T ib e t a n R a c I S -O vis am m o n hodgsoni
Ovis hodgsoni, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 65 ; P. L. Sclater, ibid.
i860, p. 129 ; Severtzoff, Trans. Soc. Moscou, vol. viii. art. 2, pp. 15 t
and 154 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 520 ; W. L. Sclater,
Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 136 (1891) ; Blanford, Fauna B rit. India—
Mamm. p. 494 (1891) ; Ward, Records o f Big Game, p. 243 (1896).
W i l d O x e n , S h e e p ,&i G o a t s . P l a t e X V .