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Show 1875.] ON ASIATIC SHEEP. 521 internally, and a small anal disk surrounding the tail and rump dirty white. Cheeks and forearms darker than the rest of the body. Ears and tail short, the latter with a narrow dark line along its upper surface. Horns massive and rather short, their terminal curve being but slightly developed (for further particulars vide list, spec. u). Fig- 7. Ovis hodgsoni, side view (specimen x in list). 2 • M u c h paler than the male, with little or no mane. No distinct anal disk. Bange.-Little Thibet (Kinloch, fyc.); Cachar region, Nepaul (Hodgson). Ovis BROOKEI. Ovis brookei, Ward, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 143. This species is based upon a skull and horns in our own collection. The locality from which the specimen was obtained is not so certain as could be desired ; but we have strong reasons for believing that the animal was shot in the vicinity of Leh, in Ladak. In its much smaller size it differs from Ovis hodgsoni; and in its deeply sulcated horns, the angles of which are very much rounded, and the terminal curve but very slightly developed, it differs as decidedly from Ovis karelini. It is not improbable that the species will be found to inhabit the Kuenluen Mountains. Dimensions of the Specimen. Length of skull measured from the highest point between the in. horns 11 Smallest breadth between orbits 4-| Length of horns, round the curve 33| Circumference of horns ., 13| OVIS NIVICOLA. 1829. Ovis nivicola, Eschsch. Zool. Atlas, p. 1, Taf. 1. 1851. Ovis montanus, Midd. Reise, Zool. p. 116, Taf. xii. figs. 1,2. Adult 3 . (winter) Mus. Lugd. Kamtschatka. Hair very long and woolly, and not lengthened into a mane on the |