Zoological Society bulletin . £ Length on curve 3H% Age 1 years THfc WIDE-HORNED WHITE SHEEP ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 859 KARELIN karelini. (Severtzoff). Inches Spread, tip to tip 36 Length on curve 44j£ Circumference \W% Loc.—Chinese Turkestan. Mead in the National Collection of Heads and Horns. HEAD No. 5—Mr. F. H. OsbornsGift to N. C. H. H. Inches Spread, tip to tip 29 Length on curve 41?-a Circumference 14# Age - 8 years WHITE MOUNTAIN Specimen, showing1 the ordi-nary close in the Reed-McMillin Collection of Headsand Horns. REAR V


Zoological Society bulletin . £ Length on curve 3H% Age 1 years THfc WIDE-HORNED WHITE SHEEP ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 859 KARELIN karelini. (Severtzoff). Inches Spread, tip to tip 36 Length on curve 44j£ Circumference \W% Loc.—Chinese Turkestan. Mead in the National Collection of Heads and Horns. HEAD No. 5—Mr. F. H. OsbornsGift to N. C. H. H. Inches Spread, tip to tip 29 Length on curve 41?-a Circumference 14# Age - 8 years WHITE MOUNTAIN Specimen, showing1 the ordi-nary close in the Reed-McMillin Collection of Headsand Horns. REAR VIEW OF HEAD No. I.(Mr. Wilson Potter) All the heads shown in this articlehave been photographed andreproduced as nearly as possible ontlit* same SHEEP HEADS SHOWN FOR COMPARISON 860 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN The specimens under notice at once strike theobserver as representing something new in thehorns of American mountain sheep. A singlespecimen, even of an extreme type, would readilybe accepted as an individual or freak develop-ment; but with six specimens, practically fromthe same locality, and another one cominggreater than any in hand, it is in order to lookseriously into the question that they following comparative measurements are ofinterest, because they represent four localitiesand are strictly comparable, all being selectedheads. OKtf DALLI HORNS, SPREAD BETWEEN TIPS, (in inches). 1. The Wide-Homed heads: 3iM ™y, iVA MA 29 2. Charles Sheldons 23 nA 17 nU S. Charles Sheldons Mts. iOA I«!i i« 17/s n% \. Reed-McMillin heads, KenaiRenin. ay* sof6 l»7/s 19}? Wi THE SAME HEADS, LENGTH ON CURVE. 1. The Wide-Horned heads U% 37 % 4\H MA *oA 2. Sheldon heads. Ogilvie Mts. in


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