Sheep, wild

or ARGALI (a Manchu word), IMG:p522_6.png:Chinese characters jubata IMG:p522_7.png:Chinese characters yamj, etc. This striking animal with a ram's head on a deer-like body, and spiral horns four feet long, is mentioned bv Marco Polo, RtiBRXJCK and other early travellers, and by earlier Chinese writers. It has received various specific names, but the Pamir species is now known as 0. pol i in honour of Marco Polo. 0. argaU is confined to the Altai and Daurian Mountains, but a different species is found south of the Gobi desert, (eastern parts of Mongolia, northern parts of Shansi and Chihli), and has received the name 0. jubata. It has long hair on the neck, withers and throat, and differs from the others in the length and spiral direction of the horns and in other points. Its dimensions are given as IMG:p522_8.png:Chinese characters ft. muzzle to tail, 3 ft. high, horns about 3 ft. long. There is another Wild Sheep in S.W. Kansu, the Burhel, O. nahura, a smaller animal than the 0 jubata, resembling the Burhel of North India.