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vol. viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873; Riitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. 

 vol. iv, p. 182, 1877 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. 

 R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 247, 1884 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 

 Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 140, 1891. 



Ovis burrhel, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 67, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. ser. 1, vol. vii, p. 248, 1841, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 vol. x, p. 868, 1841; Severtzow, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, vol. 

 viii, art. 2, p. 153, 1873. 



Ovis nahura, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 170, 1843 ; Jerdon, 

 Mamm. India, p. 296, 1867; Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. xli, p. 40, 1872, Scient. Results, 2nd Yarkand Miss. 

 Mamm. p. 85, pi. xiv, 1879, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 

 p. 499, 1891; Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 438, 1884; Flower 

 and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 354, 1891 ; Ward, Records 

 of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 387, 1910. 



Pseudois nahoor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, p. 343, 

 1846, xvi, p. 702, 1847; Horsfield, Cat. E. Ind. Mus. p. 176, 

 1851 ; Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 177, 1852. Cat. Rumi- 

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 p. 133, 1873; Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 527; Gerrard, 

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 France, 1898, p. 156. 



Musimon nahoor, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 191, 1855. 



Pseudois burrhel, Przewalski, Cat. Zool. Coll. p. 16, 1887. 



Ovis (Pseudois) nahura, Lydekker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 

 p. 231, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 105, 1907. 



Pseudois nahura, Nathusius, Zool. Anzeig. 1888, p. 333; Langkavel, 

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 Its Cousins, p. 305, 1912. 



Pseudois nayaur, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 863. 



BHARAL. 



Typical locality the Tibetan frontier of Nepal. 



Size medium; shoulder-height about 36 inches. Head 

 long and narrow, with small ears ; hair of uniform length 

 throughout. Horns rounded or subtriangular at base, 

 marked with lines of growth and fine striae, the tips, which 

 are situated over the withers, inclined inwards and slightly 

 upwards. General colour of head and upper-parts brownish 

 grey, suffused with slaty blue, browner in summer, and more 

 distinctly slaty grey, washed with brown, in winter ; under- 

 parts, inner and hind surfaces of legs, and buttocks as far as 

 root of tail \vhite ; in adults the face, chest, a stripe down front 

 of legs, except on knees, which are white, a flank-band, and 

 terminal two-thirds of tail black. In females the black on 



