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is found from Sikim nearly to Simla, but does not extend | Tonse River, in the Buspa Valley, near the source of the 
further west than the valley of the Sutlej, its place being | Ganges, and still more abundantly eastward in Kumaon 
there taken by Ovis vignez. The Burrhel is found on| and Gurhwal, in the ranges between the Pindar and 
this side of the great snowy range at the head of the | Bhagirutty rivers. It occurs only at great elevations, 
Fis. 14.—lhe Goral. 
from the limits of fcrest to the cxtreme limits upwards of In a state of nature the Burrhel prefers grassy slopes to 
vegetation, in summer generally keeping to the tops of | rocky ground, and associates in flocks of various sizes, 
the hills, and even in winter rarely descending below the | from four or five, to fifty, or even a hundred. 
forests. Capt. Kinloch, in his excellent account of the “ Game 
Fic. 15.—The Burrhel Sheep. 
Animals of Tibet and the North-West,” tells us that the | us an exciting account of his adventures in pursuit of 
best Burrhel-shooting is to be obtained in the Valley of | these splendid animals in the former locality. 
Leptel, beyond the Millum Pass, and that of Spiti| 16. The Esquerzo (Ceratophrys ornata).—The glass 
between the Manerung and Parungla Passes, and gives | cases which held the various species of insects in the 
