. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . rinceDemidoffs After Wild Slieep in the Altai and Mongolia, but the colour ismade decidedly darker than in the mounted specimen presented to theBritish Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale. The distinctive characteristics of the typical Siberian, or Altai, race ofthe argali appear to be the following :—The horns of the old rams arevery long and massive and much inclined outwards at the tips, which aregenerally but little broken, so that their spiral forms more than onecomplete
. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . rinceDemidoffs After Wild Slieep in the Altai and Mongolia, but the colour ismade decidedly darker than in the mounted specimen presented to theBritish Museum by Mr. St. George Littledale. The distinctive characteristics of the typical Siberian, or Altai, race ofthe argali appear to be the following :—The horns of the old rams arevery long and massive and much inclined outwards at the tips, which aregenerally but little broken, so that their spiral forms more than onecomplete circle. There is no long white ruff on the thrt)at ot tlie ramsin the summer coat, and little or no trace of the same in an old male trom Siberian Arorali 123 Siberia in the British Museum showing the winter dress. In a youngram from the Altai (Fig. 25) recently living in the Zoological Gardens thereis, however, a distinct throat-ruff, although it does not seem that thiswould ever become so long or so white as in the Tibetan argali. In thewinter dress ot the old rams the general colour of the hair on the upper-. FiG. 28.—Skull and Horns of Siberian Argali. From an Altai specimen shot byMr. St. George Littledale. parts is light brown tinged with grey ; the lower part of the face, theabdomen, a patch on the rump, including the tail, and the inner surfacesof the limbs and their front surfaces below the knees and hocks beingwhite or whitish. In the very short summer coat the colour of the oldrams is very much lighter, the general tint above being uniform speckledlight brown and white, becoming lighter on the face, throat, chest, theunder surface of the body, and the limbs, while the white rump-patch is 124 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America so little lighter in colour than the back as to be almost in the winter coat show a tuh of dark hair longer than elsewhereon the nape ot the neck. Very different in appearance to the old rams in the summer coat asdes
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