Guide to the great fame animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) : Illustrated by 53 text and other figures.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1907
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Guide to the great fame animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) : Illustrated by 53 text and other figures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    37/152 (page 23)
    (O. fannim, 1070) of the Yukon is probably only a variety of the White Bighorn; and indeed it is a question whether any one of these Sheep is more than a local race of O. canadensis. The specimen of the Black Bighorn was presented by Mr. D. T. Hanbury; those of the White Bighorn by Mr. J. T. Studley ; and those of the Grey Bighorn by Prince Colloredo Mannsfeld. In North-east Siberia the group is represented by the long-haired grey O. borealis (1055)^ of which a specimen presented by Mr. Talbot Clifton is exhibited, and in Kamchatka by 0. nivicola (1056); both these being closely allied to the White and the Black American Bighorns. Argali Sheep The Central Asian Wild Sheep known as Argalis differ from the Bighorns 0. amnion, 0. hodgsoni, etc. by tbeir strongly wrinkled borns> in which the outer front angle is much more pronounced. The gland Fig. 6. The Siberian Argali Sheep (Ovis ammori). below the eye is also much larger, and there is consequently a deeper pit in the skull for its reception. The Siberian Argali (O. ammon3 1057, figs. 6 & 8) lacks the ruff on the throat characterising [Cases 47 & 48 ] [Case 46.]