430 MamMALtIA OF INDIA. 
‘No animal is more wary than the Ovis Ammon, and this, combined 
with the open nature of the ground which it usually inhabits, renders it 
perhaps the most difficult of all beasts to approach. It is however, of 
course, sometimes found on ground where it can be stalked, but even 
then it is most difficult to obtain a quiet shot, as the instant one’s head 
is raised one of the herd is nearly sure to give the alarm, and one only 
gets a running shot. 
“* Outs Ammon shooting requires a great deal of patience. In the first 
place, unless the sportsman has very good information regarding the 
ground, he may wander for days before he discovers the haunts of the 
old rams ; and, secondly, he may find them on ground where it is hope- 
less to approach them. In the latter case all that can be done is to 
wait, watch them until they move to better ground, and if they will not 
do this the same day, they must be left till the next. Sooner or later 
they will move to ground where they can be stalked, and then, if proper 
care is exercised, they are not much more difficult to get near than 
other animals; but the greatest precautions must be taken to prevent 
being seen before one fires, Some men may think this sort of shooting 
too troublesome, and resort to driving, but this is very uncertain work, 
and frightens the animals away, when, by the exercise of patience, a 
quiet shot might be obtained.” 
A writer in Zhe Asian, whose ‘Sportsman’s Guide to Kashmir and 
Ladakh’ contains most valuable information, writes thus in the issue of 
August 30, 1881, of the keen sense of smell possessed by this animal, 
and I take the liberty of quoting a paragraph :— 
“The Ovis Ammonis possessed of the sense of smell to a remark- 
able degree, and, as every one who has stalked in Ladakh is aware, the 
wind is treacherous. If the stalker feels a puff of wind on his back 
when within 700 or 800 yards of the game, he well knows that it is ‘ all 
up.’ On the tops of the mountains and in the vicinity of glaciers these 
puffs of wind are of frequent occurrence ; often they will only last for a 
few seconds, but that is sufficiently long to ruin the chance of getting a 
shot at the Ovis. Except for this one fact, we cannot admit ‘that the 
nyan is harder to approach than any other hill sheep.” 
No. 440. Ovis KARELINI. 
Karelins Wild Sheep. 
NativE NamEs.—A~ or Ghuljar (male), Arka (female), Khirghiz ; 
Kiulja, Turki of Kashgar. 
HABITAT. —Mountains north-west of Kashgar, and thence northwards 
beyond the Thian Shan mountains on to the Semiretchinsk Altai. 
DESCRIPTION (by Sir Victor Brooke and Mr. Brooke, translated and 
abstracted from Severtzoff, see ‘P. Z. S.’ 1875, p _512).— —‘'The horns 
