below the knees and hocks, as well as a small caudal disk in male|ji dirty
white. The upper surface of the root of the. tail has a dark mark ; and
the caudal disk and white( on the legs are less developed than in either of
the preceding races, the fawn of the hind-legs sometimes extending
completely round them above the hocks. In old males, probablywih
F ig. 34..—Head of male'Tibetan Argali. From a specimen shot by Col.-Wade-Dalton.
(Rowland Ward, Records o f B ig Game.)
summer coat,1 the back becomes grizzled, owing jp the admixture of white
with the brown hairs. . The ewes have little or no mane, less of white on
the limbs, and the caudal disk much more indistinct.
The following are some of the largest horn-measurements of this race
given by Mr. Rowland Ward in the edition of 1896
1 Mr. Blanford suggests that this sheep is darker in summer than in winter, but this is certainly
not so in the case of old rams.
Length along
Front Curve.
Basal
Circumference. '■ Tip to Tip.
1 ® ! l9
H ?
2 3
4 7 s ?
- 4 6 J 2 1
4 6 * 1 *91 20
4?
« i
46' 1 P | ?
44t - * 7i 2 2 ^
44i ' i l l 2 l |
! i i 4 H r • l9i
# 1 1 9
In the male jpeeimen forming the subject of plate xv. the front angles
of the horns are distinct and strongly developed, but they are much more
Ifiunded off in the head repreSentelfiin figi 34. There appeajgindeed to be
two sub-varietie§iSf this rate, differing i|g this, respect, but whether these
are confined to particular localities, I have no means ?of|||^rtaining. As
already said, the development of the front angles of the horns appears, on
the whole, to be decidedly more marked than in the; Siberian race. The
Ovis blyt/ii of Severtzoff was;founded on specimens of this sheep in which
the outer front edge of the horns H rounded off.
Distribution.—The plateau of Tibet, from Northern Ladak tMthe
districts north of Sikhim, and probably farther east ; northwards it extends
to the Kuenlun, and perhaps beyond the Mustag, while eastwards the range
may extend along the southern border of the Gobi Desert to join that
of the preceding race, with which the present mtm may intergrade.
■ Slnknown to the southward of the main axis jjjf the Himalaya. In
Western Tibet not found in summer below an elevatioiw>f about 15,000
feet above the sea-level, but- in winter descending locally to some 12,000
mt 1000 feet above the'level of the town of Leh.
I am indebted to Dr. E. Buchner, of St. Petersbourg, , for the