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ever, varies. In North Persia they rut in December, 

 and in Scind (their southern limit) in April. 1 



OviS VlGNlI 



GUD, in Scind ; OORIAL, Punjab ; OORIN, Gilgit ; SHAPOO 

 LADAK GOOCH, Persia 



The gud of Scind is one of the numerous 

 varieties of the smaller wild sheep whose habitat, 

 commencing in Corsica with the moufflon, extends 

 throughout Asia Minor and Persia to the Scind 

 Frontier, and from thence throughout the Salt Range 

 into Chitral, up the Indus Valley as far as Ladak. 

 This is its limit, and its place is here taken up by 

 the Ovis hodgsoni) one of the three great wild sheep 

 of Asia. A line may be drawn across this district 

 which absolutely divides the two, and on this line 

 one or two hybrid specimens, a cross between the 

 two sheep, have been obtained, the horns of which 

 are thicker than those of the Asser sheep, but the 

 general characteristics of shape, make, and colour are 

 the same. In fact they so closely resemble the 

 shapoo Ovis vignii, that when I shot one that I 

 found running with a herd of Hodgsoni, until I had 

 him dead on the ground and examined his horns, I 

 thought he was a shapoo pure and simple. 



1 For use on the Scind frontiers a double fly-tent is necessary, as, owing to 

 the barren nature of the hill country, shade under which to pitch a small tent is 

 not often available. Supplies, especially soda water (for the water in the range 

 is poisonous) should be sent up from the nearest railway station periodically, 

 communication being kept up by a trotting camel, who will cover 50 miles in a 

 day. 



