436 MamMatia OF INDIA. 
Mr. Sclater, with reference to the two in his paper on the Punjab 
Sheep living in the Zoological Society's Garden in 1860 (‘P. Z. S.’ 1860, 
page 126), says: ‘‘On comparing the skull (of O. cycloceros) with that 
of the shapoo we observe a general resemblance. But it may be noted 
that the sub-orbital 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 
Ovis cycloceros. 
premolars and three molars) measures only 2°85 instead of 3°20 inches 
in total length.” 
There is a fine coloured plate of this animal in that magnificent folio 
work—Wolfs ‘Zoological Sketches, showing the male, female, and 
lambs ; and in that valuable book of Kinloch’s, ‘ Large Game-shooting 
in Thibet and the North-west’ is a very clear photograph of the oorial’s 
head, from which I give the above sketch. He gives the following 
account of its habits: ‘The oorial is found among low stony hills_ 
and ravines, which are generally more or less covered with thin jungle, 
consisting principally of thorny bushes. During the heat of the day the 
