. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . en the above and C. severtzowi. Length on front curve. Circum-ference. ioj Tip toTip. 22^ Locality. Elbruz District . Owner. St. George Littledale. B.—PALLASS EACE (C. caucasica cylindricornis). Lengthon frontcurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Locality. Owner. 46 132 Si Eastern Caucasus Prince E. Demidoff. 44! I3i IO Do. The late Prince P. Demidoff. 43 4°2 14I2± 174 i5i British Museum (the late PrinceP. Demidoff).. P. B. Vander Byl. 40 12^ 10 Do. P. H. Thomas. 39 i3tV 19 Do
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . en the above and C. severtzowi. Length on front curve. Circum-ference. ioj Tip toTip. 22^ Locality. Elbruz District . Owner. St. George Littledale. B.—PALLASS EACE (C. caucasica cylindricornis). Lengthon frontcurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Locality. Owner. 46 132 Si Eastern Caucasus Prince E. Demidoff. 44! I3i IO Do. The late Prince P. Demidoff. 43 4°2 14I2± 174 i5i British Museum (the late PrinceP. Demidoff).. P. B. Vander Byl. 40 12^ 10 Do. P. H. Thomas. 39 i3tV 19 Do. St. George Littledale. 3§i 13 17 Do. Do. 3H 12^ Eastern Caucasus . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 36! i3i i6| Do. Count H. de Ganay. 36 13 Daghestan . J. D. Cobbold. 35* 12 iSi Eastern Caucasus Rhys Williams. 35 I2| 20| Do. Mervyn G. Williams. 35 12^ 16 Do. S. Whitehouse. 34! I3l 24i Do. Duke of Alba. 341 iog 134 Do. Major Talbot. 33t 13 i7i Do. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 32 13 19 Do. Berthold Smith. 32 4 22 Do. Sutton Timmis. 314 12 7i Do. F. G. Barclay. 3i II 28 Do. Capt. H. H. P. Deasy. BHARAL 385. Skull and Horns of Bharal. The BHARAL or BLUE SHEEP (Pseudois nahura). Ta-sang-yang, Chinese. With horns not unlike those of Pallass tur, the bharal or bluesheep of Tibet differs from the goats by the absence of a beardand a strong odour in the males, and on account of these and otherpoints of difference from the goats is placed next the sheep, of whichgroup it forms a very aberrant member. The most distinctive externalfeatures are the comparatively smooth and olive-coloured horns, whichcurve at first outwards and then backwards from the sides of the head,and the bluish grey colour of the thick coat of the back and sides, theflanks, under-parts, and legs being handsomely marked with black andwhite. Height at shoulder, about 36 inches; weight, about 130 the complete absence of glands on the face, and the rudimentarycondition of those between the hoofs, the bharal differs fr
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