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slopes, I saw some dots in the far distance, and 

 turned the glass on them. Poli at last ! Giving 

 the glass to the shikari, I asked him what they 

 were. He could make nothing of them ; but 

 when we got nearer, I made them out clearly 

 to be females. Excepting in colour for they 

 were darker brown on the back and whiter on 

 the legs and belly they were just like the female 

 Ovis Amman. I saw no males near them ; so 

 after watching them graze awhile, I went back, 

 and we turned in, big with hopes for the morrow. 

 We were off before daylight, Bower following 

 the main range, while I took the same direction 

 as on the previous evening. The herd were in 

 the same place ; and after getting close enough 

 to have a good look, left them undisturbed, and 

 went on up the nullah. I did not like the 

 ground at all ; it was too precipitous, and not 

 my idea of poli-ground that is to say, compar- 

 ing it with the habitat of the Ovis Ammon, the 

 male of which species generally frequents open 

 undulating hills, the females only being found 

 on the more precipitous mountain-sides. I kept 

 on for some distance, looking carefully for fresh 

 tracks ; and seeing none, I concluded that at this 

 season, at all events, the great sheep sought his 



