BULLET AND SHOT 



Tourist's and Sportsman *s Guide to Kashmir and 

 Ladak. 



The Thibetan names for this sheep are 

 Hyan, Nuan, Nyan, Niar, Niaud, or Gnow. 



THE BURHEL (Ovis Nahura vel Burhel} 



The native name applied in the Himalayas to 

 this wild sheep is thus variously anglicised by 

 different authors by General Kinloch as "Burrell"; 

 by Jerdon, Colonel A. E. Ward, and Sterndale as 

 " Burhel " ; by Colonel Heber Percy as " Burrel," 

 and by Rowland Ward as " Bharal." 



The habitat of the burhel in the Himalayas is 

 from Ladakh to Bhootan, and Kinloch states that 

 it is probably not found below 10,000 feet elevation; 

 he personally knows that it inhabits Ladak, Spiti, 

 Gurwahl, Kumaon, the vicinities of the Niti and 

 Chor Hoti passes, and the valleys towards the 

 upper waters of the Indus and Sutlej. Burhel 

 are found at as high an elevation as 17,000 feet, 

 and Colonel Heber Percy has seen this sheep 

 and the Himalayan ibex in the same place, and 

 he states that they are generally found upon broken 

 ground at no great distance from rocky cliffs, and 

 are moreover adepts at climbing. 



Kinloch says, " In a word, what they delight in 

 is good grazing ground in the immediate vicinity 

 of rocky fastnesses, to which they can imme- 

 diately betake themselves when disturbed." 



Burhel are found in herds, though in summer the 



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