More about the Bujnurct Sheep 207 



The smaller (urial) breed seemed generally to 

 be on typical urial ground steep, stony ravines 

 while the bigger (Bujnurd) sheep seemed to 

 affect the more open, down-like country. Take 

 again the mere size of the horns. One gener- 

 ally finds that beasts of the same age in any 

 given locality have on the average about the 

 same - sized horns. Here, if specimens were 

 divided into two classes big and small horned 

 there would probably be found an average 

 difference between the two, in beasts of the 

 same age, of six or seven inches, and a cor- 

 responding difference in the girth measurement. 

 This view is concurred in by Major J. Watson, 

 a keen sportsman and good naturalist, who has 

 also visited this country on two separate occa- 

 sions. After all, though one may admit the 

 primd facie improbability of two races of sheep 

 existing on one range, there is nothing impos- 

 sible in it. Theories have to be squared with 

 facts, not vice versd. The same unlikely state 

 of affairs is found with other kinds of animals 

 sometimes. 



Some correspondence that appeared in ' The 

 Field' on the subject of the Bujnurd sheep is 

 given in Appendix V. From this it will be 

 seen that the eminent authority, Mr K. Lydekker, 

 believed this sheep to be a local variety of the 



