THE STORY OF THE WILD SHEEP. 



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found apart in the summer, but frequently associating together at all seasons. 

 The herds keep to high, open ground above forest, and never even enter 

 bush. They feed and rest alternately during the day. O'wing to their color 

 it is peculiarly difficult to make them out when they are lying down amongst 

 stones. It appears that these animals are never found below an elevation 

 of ten thousand feet above the sea-level, while in summer they range up 

 to fourteen thousand and sixteen thousand feet. Bharal are by no means 

 difficult of approach in districts where they have not been much disturbed, 





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"big horns" of the rocky mountains. 



and on one occasion in Ladak I came suddenly upon a flock of five rams 

 lying asleep in an unfrequented path. 



The Barbary, or maned sheep, which is the only wild representative of 

 the group met with in Africa, w'lile agreeing with the bharal in the general 

 character of its hori^s and skull, is distinguished by the great mass of long 

 hair clothing the throat, chest, and fore-limbs, and likewise by the great 

 length of the thickly-haired tail, which reaches slightly below the hocks. 



