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A DAY AFTER URIAL. 



r behoves all sportsmen whose fate ordains that 

 ey shall live for a time in Baluchistan, on the 

 unjab frontier, in Chitral, Gilgit, and the Western 

 imalaya generally, to thank Providence who has 

 ^iven them the urial for there is no more sport- 

 ing animal under the sun. Their heads, when 

 seen hung up in a hall, do not attract the same 

 attention as those of their cousins of Tibet and 

 the Pamirs, but they are in their own way very 

 handsome. The horns are light in colour and 

 beautifully corrugated, and when entire form two 

 almost complete circles ; but, as is the case with 

 most wild sheep, the tips are often minus the last 

 few inches, which have been worn or broken off. 



Anything less " sheep-like " than the appear- 

 ance and behaviour of the urial cannot well be 

 imagined. Their heads certainly bear some re- 

 semblance to a sheep, in the same way as the 

 head of a race -horse is similar to that of a 

 donkey, but here similarity is at an end. The 



