Identifier: wildoxensheepgoa00lyde (find matches)
Title: Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Bison Muskox Mountain sheep Goats Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, R. Ward
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ta Oris jii/nitii^ Peters, Monatshcricht AkaJ. Bcr/in^ 1^76, p. 117, pis. i.-iv. ;Prezewalski, Cat. Zoo/. Coll. p. 15 (1887). Characters.—Apparently nearly allied to the Tibetan race, having hornsot a very similar type, and a distinct throat-rutf, which, like the face, isyellowish-white. The white on the buttocks and hinder surtaces of thelegs is, however, more abundant and of a purer tint even than in theSiberian race, the tail being wholly pure white. Distribution.—Eastern Mongolia, to the north of Pekin. This sheep isknown to me only by the description and plate in Peterss memoir. c. Tibetan Race—Ovis ammon hodgsoni Ovis hodgsoni., Blyth, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 61;; P. L. Sclater, ibid.i860, p. 129; Severtzoff, Trans. Soc. Moscoi/, vol. viii. art. 2, pp. 151and 154 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 520; W. L. Sclater,Cat. Ma/nni. Ind. Mas. pt. ii. p. 1^6 (1891) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India—Manini. p. 494 (1H91) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 243 (1896). > X
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Tibetan Arorali i8i Ovis iu)u)ioiio/ths, Hodgson, yoi/rn. .is. Soc. Bengal., vol. x. pp. 230 and91:? (1H40-41), XV. p. 338 (1846) ; flutton, ibIJ. vol. xvi. p. 568 (1847). Ovis tiiiiiiioii., Horsfield, Cat. E. Imi. Miis. p. 176 (1851), nee O. amnion^Linn. 1766 ; Kinloch, Large Game Shooting, pt. i. p. 19 (1869) ; Blanford,fotirn. As. Soc. Benga/, vol. xli. p. 40 (1872). Caprovis arga/i, Adams, Pror. Zoo/. Soc. 1858, p. 527, nee 0. arga/i,Pallas, 1777-80. Ovis hlythi, Severtzoff, Trans. Soc. Moscoi/, vol. viii. art. 2, p. 154 (1873). Ovis hrookei, E. Ward, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1874, p. 143 ; Brooke, i/jiJ.1875, p. 52) ; Sterndale, Man/n/. hn/ia, p. 434 (1884), Journ. Bom/myNat. Hist. Soc. vol. i. p. 35 (1886), Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1886, p. 205. (?) Ovis </a/ai-/anhe, Prezewalski, Cat. Zoo/. Co//, p. 16 (1887). P/ate XV. C/iaracters.—The size hut little less than in the typical race, the heightat the shoulder ranging from about 3 feet 6 inches to at least 3 teet 10inches.^ The horns of mal

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