. The sheep and its cousins . Sheep. 282 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS dition of the mounted specimen in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), the upper part of the face is brownish and the muzzle white. In this specimen, which appears to be an adult male, the horns mea- sure 48 inches in length, with a basal girth of 15 inches, and a tip-to-tip interval of 38 inches. A skull and horns of an argali brought by Mr. D. Carruthers from the Aksai plateau of Chinese Tur- kestan are of the same general type as the above. The last of the argalis is the great sheep inhabit-. SkuU and Horns of the Pamir Argali,
. The sheep and its cousins . Sheep. 282 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS dition of the mounted specimen in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), the upper part of the face is brownish and the muzzle white. In this specimen, which appears to be an adult male, the horns mea- sure 48 inches in length, with a basal girth of 15 inches, and a tip-to-tip interval of 38 inches. A skull and horns of an argali brought by Mr. D. Carruthers from the Aksai plateau of Chinese Tur- kestan are of the same general type as the above. The last of the argalis is the great sheep inhabit-. SkuU and Horns of the Pamir Argali, or Marco Polo's Sheep ing the Pamirs, or " Roof of the World," which takes its name from the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, by whom it was discovered in the thirteenth century. In this race {O. animonpoll) the enormous horns of old rams are longer and relatively narrower than in any of the other argalis, forming much more than one complete circle, with the front surface markedly angulated, and the maximum lengths ranging from about 69 to 75 inches, the girth from 14^10 16, or, rarely, 17 inches, and the tip-to-tip interval from 48 to 56 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London : G. Allen
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