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Female.—More uniform pale brown, beneath paler, belly whitish, 
no beard; horns quite short and straight, about 3 inches long. 
Hab. Sulimani, range of Punjab, altitude 2000 feet, and extend- 
ing into Affghanistan ; Kojeh Amraun, Hindoo Koosh, and Huzarreh 
Hills (Hutton). 
Mus. East India Company (horns). 
Vivario, Soc. Zool. Londinensis. 
The very fact of this animal inhabiting the low Salt range of the 
Punjab, at an altitude of 2000 feet, would indicate the probability of 
its distinctness from the preceding, which is not found under an ele- 
vation of 12,000. The Oorial has been well described by Major 
Hay, Captain Hutton, and Dr. Adams, as above referred to, and it 
is hardly necessary to repeat the details of its habits and manners. 
The differences in the horns, as well as those of its general external 
appearance, are sufficiently obvious, as will appear on examination of 
the figures, to leave no doubt as to its specific difference from the 
Shapoo. The skull and horns from Griffith’s Affghanistan collection, 
referred to in Dr. Horsfield’s ‘Catalogue of Mammalia’ (p. 175), 
belong to this species. On comparing the skull with that of the 
Shapoo, we observe a general resemblance. But it may be noted that 
the suborbital pits in the present species are smaller, deeper, and 
more rounded, the nasal bones are considerably shorter and more 
pointed, and the series of molar teeth (formed in each skull of three 
premolars and three true molars) measures only 2°85 instead of 3:20 
inches in total length. 
At least ¢wo other distinct species of Wild Sheep are found within 
the limits of our Indian possessions. Through the kindness of Mr. 
Leadbeater, Capt. Speke, Mr. F. Moore, and others, I am enabled 
to exhibit a tolerably complete series of the skulls, the horns of these, 
and those before alluded to, by which the differences of all four 
species are appreciable at first glance. 
1. The Ovis hodgsoni, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 65 ; Ovis ammon 
et O. ammonoides, Hodgs. ; Ovis argali, ex Mont. Himalay., J. E. 
Gray, the Ammon or Argali of the higher Himalayan ranges, the 
Banbhera of Nepal, and N’yan of Thibet. It is, I believe, not yet 
quite certain that this magnificent Sheep is identical with the Ovis 
ammon, Linn. (Zgosceros argali, Pallas), of Siberia. Mr. Blyth’s 
appellation appears to be the first given to the Himalayan animal. 
Two fine males and a female of this species are in the Museum of the 
East India Company. 
Hab. Cachar region of Nepal (Hodgs.); Ladakh (Speke). 
2. Ovis nahoor, Hodgson (O. burrhel, Blyth?) ; the Burrhel or 
Bharal of English sportsmen ; Nahoor of Nepal. 
I confess I am not able at present to appreciate thoroughly the 
differences between the O. nahoor and O. burrhel as insisted on by 
Mr. Blyth*. There are not sufficient specimens of the whole animal 
at present accessible to enable one to express a decided opinion on 
* P. Z. S. 1840, pp. 66, 67. 
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