. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. CAPRINiE 107 1891 ; De Poucins, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. x, p. 53, 1895; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 240, 1896; Lydeliker, Wild Oxen, Sheej), and Goats, p. 188, 1898, Great and Small Game of India, p. 129, 1901, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 91, 1907; Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugcth. vol. iii, p. 228, 1901. (?) Ovis arkar, W. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 89. Caprovis polii, Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sciugeth, vol. iii, p. 228,1891. Ovis poli typica, Ly
. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Ungulates. CAPRINiE 107 1891 ; De Poucins, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. x, p. 53, 1895; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 240, 1896; Lydeliker, Wild Oxen, Sheej), and Goats, p. 188, 1898, Great and Small Game of India, p. 129, 1901, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 91, 1907; Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sdugcth. vol. iii, p. 228, 1901. (?) Ovis arkar, W. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 89. Caprovis polii, Brehm, Tierleben, ed. 3, Sciugeth, vol. iii, p. 228,1891. Ovis poli typica, Lydehker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, p. 192, 1898. Ovis ammon poli, LydekJcer, Field, vol. cxiii, p. 117, 1909, The Sheep and Its Cousins, p. 282, 1912. Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 8, 1913; Ward, R^^cords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 405, 1910. Typical locality the rainirs, in the neighbourhood of the Syr Daria. Horns slender and forming a more open and outwardly extended spiral than in any of the other races; lengtli of fine specimens 69 to 75, girth 14J to 16, or rarely 17 inches. Coat in summer longer than in ammon; general colour of upper-parts light speckled brown; most or all of face,. Fig. 33.—Skull and Horns of Pamir Argali {Ovis ammon poli). throat, chest, under-parts, buttocks, and legs white or whitish, the white extending largely on to outer side of thighs; a blackish streak from nape to withers; no distinct throat-ruff. In winter the hair considerably longer, forming a wdiite ruff on throat and chest and a darkish crest from nape to withers ; upper-parts with a more or less rufescent tinge, especially towards border of fawn area. In females, which have no ruff, the front of the neck is brown in winter, while in summer there is no dark stripe from nape to tail. 79. 11. 21. 20. Frontlet and horns. Pamir; collected by Lieut. Wood, Type of the race. Traiuferred fro III India Museum, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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