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An excellent coloured plate is to be found in Blanford’s ‘ Scientific 
Results of the Second Yarkand Mission’ and a life-like photograph of 
the head in Kinloch’s ‘ Large Game-shooting.’ According to the 
latter author the burrel prefers bare rocky hills, and when inhabiting 
those which are clothed with forest, rarely or never descends to the 
limits of the trees. ‘The favourite resorts of burrel are those hills which 
have slopes well covered with grass in the immediate vicinity of steep 
precipices, to which they can at once betake themselves in case of 
alarm. Females and young ones frequently wander to more rounded 
and accessible hills, but I have never met with old males very far from 
some rocky stronghold. The males and females do not appear to 
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separate entirely during the summer, as I have found mixed flocks at 
all seasons, though, as a rule, the old males form themselves into small 
herds and live apart. In my opinion the flesh of the burrel surpasses 
in flavour the best mutton, and has moreover the advantage of being 
generally tender soon after the animal is killed.” 
According to Jerdon the burrel is fattest in September and October. 
In the ‘ Indian Sporting Review’ a writer, ‘“‘ Mountaineer,” states’ that 
in winter, when they get snowed in, they actually browse the hair off 
each other, and come out miserably thin. 
The name Ovis nahura is not a felicitous one, as it was given under 
a mistake by Hodgson, the nahoor being quite another animal. I think 
