HUNTING IN CHINESE TARTARY. 165 



THE LAMMERGEYER. 



an instance of a golden eagle pouncing on or carrying away 

 a living prey. 



The Tartar shepherds near the snow informed me that 

 during the lambing season the eagles were very troublesome. 

 If a ewe dropt a sickly lamb, and left it, the eagles would 

 attack it, but never attempted to stoop to carry away a lively 

 one, or one that followed its mother. The Indian golden eagle 

 is identical with the Laminergeyer of the Alps, but wants the 

 courage of the latter bird. 



Jtevenons a nous moutons literally, let us go back to our 

 sheep. A companion and myself had been working hard in 

 the " Sogla," one of the passes in the snowy range conducting 

 into Chinese Tartary, after the wild sheep, and found them 

 this day more wary than on any previous occasion. It is not 

 generally known that there are two species of wild sheep one 

 called the Dairuk, and the other (an enormous animal, at least 

 as far as its horns are concerned) known to naturalists as the 

 ovis ammon. The horns and head of the latter are as much as 

 a hill man can lift, and singular enough the body is small 

 indeed, out of all proportion to the horns borne by a full- 

 grown ram. My companions and self espied on an opposite 

 hill what we at first (through our telescopes) thought was an 



