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Show 512 SIR VICTOR BROOKK AND MR. B. BROOKE LJune 15, We now proceed to give abstracts of Mr. Severtzoff's descriptions of the species observed by him in Turkestan. " Ovis KARELENI. (Figs. 2 and 3.) " I have named this species after the worthy explorer of Central Asia, who was also the first to obtain specimens of the species in the Ala Tau, near Semiretchinsk, about 1840. The specimens have up to the present been considered identical with Oris argali (Pallas). Ovis karelini (specimen b in list). Ovis karelini (specimen b in list). I have, however, upon a comparison of m y two perfect specimens and the three specimens obtained by Karelin, separated this form from the true East-Siberian Ovis argali of Pallas. Of this latter species there are three skulls and a perfect specimen in the Moscow University Museum." Description.-"The horns are moderately thick, with rather |