majority of the males separate from the females. 

 Sterndale's description of this animal is as follows : 

 " General colour a dull slaty blue, slightly tinged 

 with fawn ; the belly, edge of buttocks, and tail, 

 white ; throat, chest, front of forearm and cannon 

 bone, a line along the flank dividing the darker 

 tint from the belly, the edge of the hind limbs and 

 the tip of the tail, deep black ; horns moderately 

 smooth, with a few wrinkles, rounded, nearly touch- 

 ing at the base, directed upwards, backwards and 

 outwards, the points being turned forwards and 

 inwards. The female is smaller, the black marks 

 smaller and of less extent ; small, straight, slightly 

 recurved horns ; nose straighten The young are 

 darker and browner." 



General Kinloch's description, which differs con- 

 siderably from Sterndale's, is: "The colour is a 

 light bluish grey above, and white beneath. The 

 chest and throat, the legs, and a line along the 

 side separating the grey from the white, are jet 

 black." 



The burhel stands from 30 to 36 inches 

 in height, the females being disproportionately 

 smaller than the rams. Although burhel frequent 

 bare ground carrying no cover with the exception 

 of rocks, their colour assimilates so well with that 

 of their surroundings, that they are very hard to 

 detect when they are lying motionless. 



Colonel Ward points out the great utility of a 

 pair of good Baltistan dogs in recovering wounded 

 burhel ; and the Sportsman s Guide gives many 

 localities for this sheep. The meat of the burhel 



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