Sha or Urial 167 



Plate XIII. 



Characters. — Size medium, the lieight at the shoulder varying from 

 32 to 36 inches ; both sexes horned ; the face-pits in the skullhirge. Adult 

 males with a more or less developed ruff of long hair on the throat, 

 commencing as two large tufts on each side of the chin, but soon uniting, 

 and extending downwards to the chest. Horns of male arising close 

 together on the head, curving in a circular form at first backwards and 

 outwards, and then forwards and inwards, so that their tips come more or 

 less nearly below the line of the eyes ; the curvature in some cases almost 

 or completely in one plane, but in other instances forming a spiral, very 

 seldom exceeding a circle ; all the three surfices marked with coarse 

 transverse wrinkles, varying in distance from one another either indi- 

 vidually, or according to age and locality ; the two front angles more or 

 less distinctly marked, in some cases forming prominent nodose beads, 

 between which the front surface is concave. Horns of female short and 

 nearly straight. Colour of upper-parts rufous-brown or gray in summer, 

 light grayish-brown in winter ; tail, buttocks, limbs, and under-parts 

 white or whitish ; throat and chest ruff in some cases black throughout, 

 but usually with some white hairs, and in old rams of one race entirely 

 white in front passing into black at the base ; muzzle in old animals 

 white or whitish ; a black or brownish-black patch behind each shoulder, 

 and in some cases a line on the tianks and markings on the outer side of 

 the limbs also blackish-brown. 



The following are some of the largest horn-measurements recorded by 

 Mr. Rowland Ward in the 1896 edition of Rccorih of Big Game: — 



