THE WILD SHEEP OF INDIA 



The white ruff of the male is a striking feature 

 which can be seen at a great distance. Ovis 

 Ammon are extremely wary animals, and so in- 

 tensely acute is their sense of smell, that they are 

 most difficult to stalk on account of the treacherous 

 nature of the wind in Thibet. 



Colonel Ward recommends patience in working 

 ground, to reach which the sportsman has marched 

 some hundreds of miles, and which ought not, 

 therefore, to be disturbed on cloudy or gusty 

 days. 



General Kinloch, with his vast experience in 

 stalking Himalayan game, considers a male nyan 

 as by far the most difficult animal amongst them 

 all to circumvent. In addition to the difficulty of 

 approaching within shot of nyan which have been 

 viewed, it is further very hard to find the old rams 

 in the summer as they exhibit a strongly-marked 

 penchant for certain pet spots, so that the sports- 

 man may pass near their haunts without seeing the 

 game of which he is in search, though females and 

 young may be daily met with. At this season the 

 old rams, leaving the ewes to their own devices, 

 live apart from the latter in their favourite, often 

 circumscribed, localities. 



Any sportsman who may contemplate an ex- 

 pedition in search of nyan, should obtain and 

 carefully study General A. A. A. Kinloch's Large 

 Game Shooting, Thibet and Northern India ; as 

 well as Colonel Ward's, The Sportsman's Guide to 

 Kashmir and Ladak, etc., under the chastening, 

 and I trust pessimistic, light of the latter's The 



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