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placed further back. Ibex seem little affected by 

 cold, for in the day-time they remain in the most 

 secluded and rugged spots above the limits of 

 vegetation, and in the evening move downwards 

 towards their feeding grounds, which often lay at 

 a great distance. In summer the males separate 

 from the females, and in a body resort to the higher 

 regions, where they may sometimes be met with in 

 troops of fifty. 



The burrul, or snow sheep, is a gregarious 

 animal, found only upon the loftier ranges. The 

 male stands thirty-eight inches high at the shoul- 

 der, and is about four feet and a-half in length, 

 often weighing over two hundred weight. The 

 female is scarcely half the size. Their general 

 colour is a light ash with white under the belly; 

 but an old male has also black breast and points, 

 as well as a narrow stripe between the ash on the 

 upper part of the body and the white of the belly. 

 The horns of the male are about twenty-two inches 

 long by eleven in circumference, and they have a 

 single curve like a ram's, but the reverse way. 

 The female has small flat horns, half the size. 



