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on the higher ground and lower ranges of hills throughout the Bad- 

 ghis, from 2000 feet and upwards. I saw a skull and horns at a 

 Ziarat or shrine . . . between Kara-kainta and Kushk." 



"At one time they were common in the hills round Quetta [Balu- 

 chistan], but they have been rather shot out in this neighbourhood" 

 (Burrard, 1925?, pp. 188-189). 



"Oorial (locally called ( gud y ) are scattered all over the district 

 [Zhob Valley, Baluchistan], are still fairly plentiful in spite of 

 much shooting, and good rams are still to be met with fairly close 

 to main roads" (Stockley, 1930, p. 567). 



"The Afghan race ... is said to include the Urial inhabiting 

 the Khirtar range and its lower spurs in Sind" (Anonymous, 1933, 

 p. 33). 



"I am ... on my way back from the Kirchat preserve in W. 

 Sind. I have been to it three times before, since the War, and 

 estimated that there were between ... 80 to 100 oorial on the 

 preserve, which is about 90 miles north of Karachi. ... In 1931 

 ... the local native gentry swarmed in and slaughtered the ani- 

 mals. ... I reckon the stock is now under ... 30 oorial." (C. H. 

 Stockley, in litt., December 12, 1933.) 



Bokharan Urial; Panja Urial 



OVIS VIGNEI BOCHARIENSIS NaSOnoV 



O[vis] vignei bochariensis Nasonov, Bull. Acad. Imper. Sci. [Petrograd], 

 ser. 6, vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 1130, 1914. 1 (Baljuan, Russian Turkestan (about 

 lat. 38 20' N., long. 69 30' E.) (Nasonov, 1923, p. 59).) 



FIGS.: Nasonov, 1921, figs. 1-6 (following p. 1224), pp. 1225-1227, figs. 7-9; 

 Nasonov, 1923, pi. 9, fig. 1, p. 58, fig. 13; Serebrennikov, 1931, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



W. G. Heptner (in litt, December, 1936) has no information in 

 respect to the numbers of this Urial, but regards it as probably not 

 threatened. 



It is very near to 0. v. vignei, but differs by its small size and 

 thinner horns. The shape of the horns varies greatly with age. 

 (Nasonov, 1923, pp. 57-59.) 



This Urial ranges north to the upper Zerafshan, and south to the 

 mountains about the northern tributaries of the Panja River (from 

 about Shirabad in the west to Baljuan and Khuljab in the east). It 

 was reported by Lazdin (1915) as absent from the Darwaz district 

 in the northwestern part of Pamir. (Nasonov, 1923, pp. 56-57.) 



Serebrennikov (1931, p. 161) mentions a young one caught in the 

 southern foothills of the Hissar Mountains. 



i Nasonov (1923, p. 57) also gives an earlier reference: Nasonov, For. Trav. 

 Rep., 1913. 



