The Shapo, or Urial 



The true Salt Range urial which, as already stated, 

 is a rather small and brightly coloured local race of 

 Ovis vigneij is the only wild sheep inhabiting India 

 proper ; and since it is to be met with in localities 

 comparatively close to civilisation, where stalking is by 

 no means difficult, its pursuit does not entail the time 

 and hardships inseparable from sheep-stalking in Tibet 



Fig 13. — Head of Baluchi (r) Unal, from the "record" specimen formerly 

 owned by the late Major F. H. Taylor. 



and other parts of Central Asia. To the north it passes 

 into the above-mentioned Baluchi urial. 



In height the rams seldom appear to exceed about 

 32 inches. The summer coat is a bright rufous brown, 

 or foxy red ; and the ruff on the throat and chest 

 attains a great development, the long hairs on the front 

 of its upper portion being pure white in old rams. 

 Compared with those of the shapo the horns form a 

 less open and more compact spiral, with their tips 

 convergent and approximating to the eyes. 



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