408 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Head of Shapo or Ladak Urial. 
The URIAL or SHAPO (Ovis vignei). 
A much smaller sheep than most of the Asiatic argalis, with com- 
paratively slender and well-wrinkled horns of considerable length, 
which when fully developed curve forwards along the sides of the face ; 
the males with a more or less strongly developed whitish ruff on the 
throat. General colour varying from rufous brown to grey in summer, 
with the chest, under-parts, and portions of the legs white, and some- 
times blackish “points.” Females with small horns. Height at 
shoulder about 32 inches; weight about 120 lbs. 
Distribution.—From lLadak and Zanskar to Russian Turkestan, 
Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Southern Persia, the North - West 
Frontier of India, the Punjab Salt-Range, and Sind. Four 
local races, two of which probably intergrade in the Indus valley, 
are recognised :—The typical urin of Astor, the sha or shapo of 
Ladak (O. vignei typica) with much black in the ruff; the Kelat 
urial (O. v. dlanford?) of Kelat, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, and 
the Trans-Indus districts, in which the points of the horns tend to 
turn up, and the front angles may be knotted ; the Punjab urial 
(O. v. cycloceros) of the Cis-Indus Punjab, in which the colour is 
redder, the ruff much developed, and the horns form a close- 
coiled spiral ; the Kopet-Dagh urial (0. v. arkal) of the Ust-Urz 
plateau and the Kopet-Dagh and Alag-Dagh, in which the front of 
the horns is much flattened, with the two angles very pronounced, 
and the ruff wholly white. 
