. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . ep covered with a grey blanket, from which feature the namesof saddle-backed and piebald sheep have been suggested as appropriatedesignations. The front of the fore-legs from the knee downwards, andthe whole of the corresponding surface of the hind-limb are marked by abrown streak ; and the tail is rather darker than the back, the rump-patchbeing white. 1 Report New York Zoological Societ-i, p. 78 (1901). 20 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America Mr. Hornadays description ot t
. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . ep covered with a grey blanket, from which feature the namesof saddle-backed and piebald sheep have been suggested as appropriatedesignations. The front of the fore-legs from the knee downwards, andthe whole of the corresponding surface of the hind-limb are marked by abrown streak ; and the tail is rather darker than the back, the rump-patchbeing white. 1 Report New York Zoological Societ-i, p. 78 (1901). 20 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America Mr. Hornadays description ot the type specimen, which is a nine-year-old ram killed in mid-winter, runs as tollows :— Entire head and neck, breast, abdomen, inside of fore-legs, and rump-patch for four inches above insertion of tail snow-white. Entire body,except as above, brownish grey, giving the appearance of a white animalcovered by a grey blanket. This colour is produced by a nearly evenmixture of pure white and blackish-brown hairs. The grey colour coversthe shoulders from the insertion of the neck downwards to the knee, where. Fig. 5.—Head and Skin, in the Winter Coat, of a recently-killed Ram oF the Kamchatkan Bighorn. From a photograph by Prince Demidoft. it fades out. On the outside of the thigh the grey colour grows paler as itdescends, until at the hock-joint it fades out entirely. The posterior edgeof the thigh is white. The lower portion of the inner surface of thethigh partakes of the grey body-colour, but is somewhat paler. On tlie front edge of the thigh and extending down to the hoofis a conspicuous band of dark brown, i,, inch wide, which, below thehock-joint, joins rather abruptly the pure white hair which covers the sidesand rear edge of the leg. A similar brown band extends down the front ofthe fore-leg from knee to hoof, similarly backed up posteriorly with white. Kamchatkan Biorhorn 21 The tail is similar in colour to the body, but much darker, and athin line of dark-brown hair c
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