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THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



these animals are never found below an elevation of ten thousand feet above the 

 sea level, while in summer they range up to fourteen thousand and sixteen thousand 

 feet. Bharal are by no means difficult of approach in districts where they have not 

 been much disturbed, and on one occasion in Ladakh the present writer came sud- 

 denly upon a flock of five rams lying asleep in an unfrequented path. They are 

 generally well represented in the Gardens of the London Zoological Society, where 

 they have bred freely. 



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THE BARBARY SHEEP. 



(One-fifteenth natural size.) . 



THE BARBARY SHEEP (Ovis tragelaphus) 



The Barbary, or inaned sheep, which is the only wild representative of the 

 group met with in Africa, while agreeing with the bharal in the general character- 

 istic of its horns and skull, is distinguished by the great mass of long hair clothing 

 the throat, chest, and fore-limbs, and likewise by the great length of the thickly- 

 haired tail, which reaches slightly below the hocks. Although commonly referred 

 to in works of natural history under the name of aoudad, it does not appear that 

 this title is recognized by the inhabitants of its native country, to whom this sheep 

 is known as the arui. 



