. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . ay constitute asmall race, its distributional area being on the western border ot that o\ thelatter species. If it be true that this sheep has a white caudal disk andunder-parts, it seems, as already mentioned, unlikely that it can be the sameanimal as Littledales sheep. Distribution. — The Karatau, or Black Mountains, lying to the south-west of Kulja on the Mongolian frontier. Ovis darwini Ovis darwini^ Prezewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 15 (1887).The brief description of this sheep being in Russian, I can say nothingeither as to its
. Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct . ay constitute asmall race, its distributional area being on the western border ot that o\ thelatter species. If it be true that this sheep has a white caudal disk andunder-parts, it seems, as already mentioned, unlikely that it can be the sameanimal as Littledales sheep. Distribution. — The Karatau, or Black Mountains, lying to the south-west of Kulja on the Mongolian frontier. Ovis darwini Ovis darwini^ Prezewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 15 (1887).The brief description of this sheep being in Russian, I can say nothingeither as to its characteristics or its habitat. 204 Sheep 8. The Bighorn—Ovis canadensis Ovis ccvhufcnsls, Shaw, Naturalists Miscellany, vol. xv. p. 6io (about1804); Biddulph, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 684; Ward, Records of BigGanit\ p. 246 (1896). Ovis niontana, Cuvier, Rig/ie Animal, vol. i. p. 267 (1817), ncc Ord,1815; X^, Mammalogie,\o\. ii. p. 487 (1822); Richardson, F(^7////^ p. 271 (1829) ; Blvth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. yj ; Gray, List. Fig. 40.—Head of Rocky Mountain Bighorn. (Rowland Ward, Rctoriis of Big Giime.) Maniin. Brit. Mas. p. 169 (184:5) ; Baird, N. Amcr. Manini. p. 674 (1857);Blasius, Sciiigttli. Dci/tsclilands, p. 470 (1857) ; Giiillemard, Proc. Zool. , p. 677. Ovis ccrvina, Desmarest, Noi/v. Did. Hist. Nat. vol. xxi. p. 551 (18 18) ;Alston, Biol. —Manun. p. i i i (1880) ; Rhoads, Anier. xxviii. p. 526 (1894) ; Matschie, SB. Gcs. naturfor. Berlin, 1896,p. 99. See Biddulph, torn. cit. p. 682. On account of the absence of a date to the volume in which itoccurs, Mr. Rhoads rejects the name canademis in favour of cervina, but it is definitely known that thevolume in question appeared before 181 3. Bighorn 205 Ovis pygargiis, H. Smith, in Griffiths Animal Kingdom^ vol. iv. p. 318,V. p. 359 (1827). Ovis califoriuanus^ Doughis, Zool. JoKni. vol. iv. p. 332 (1829). Ovis California}ia^ Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840,
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