336 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol, XXVIII. 
A plate showing the head of a Siberian Argali contrasted with that of 
the Tibetan animal is reproduced. 
To return to Hodgson’s Sheep, that is to say the Tibetan race. 
Many horns have broken tips, this may be done whilst fighting, but the broad 
frontal portion of the horns has to bear the impact when the combatants run 
at each other. Rams do not get their horns interlocked as a rule, the tips are 
very tough and would bear rough usage. 
A suggestion has been made that the horns are damaged owing to the habit 
of rubbing them against rock. Major P. Radclyffe noticed this was a common 
custom of QO. poli, and everyone who has studied Hodgson’s Sheep must 
have seen them rubbing their horns, which in time tends to flake off por- 
tions of the homy sheath. Whatever may be the reason, it is the cause of much 
disappointment and a perfect horn is hard to get. An example is a broken pair 
of horns shot near Mirpo-Tso ; the fracture is nearly 3 inches across, the remain 
ing part of the horn was 44 inches. When travellers were few, and the whole of 
Northern Ladak. was visited by only two or three guns, when also it was not 
difficult to cross the passes, Hodgson’s sheep were easy to get, Now thisis all 
changed, and only one head may be got on a game license. 
This sheep is very migratory, and naturally so, for all the game of Ladak has 
to wander to wherever there is food to be got. As the melting snow causes the 
scanty herbage to grow, the animals in Ladak are obliged to frequent the borders 
of what is then the snow line. At certain seasons this is high up, in some years 
the line varies greatly. 
Not very far from Hanle, many ‘ picked up’ horns could be obtained, The 
Tartarssaid‘the rams often wintered in that place, when if the snow was heavy, 
they died of starvation. Now-a-days, a fine pair of horns of Hodgson’s sheep is 
most eagerly sought for, Nos. 2 and 3 in the attached list show that this prize can 
still be got, No, 2 may be the record shot by Europeans in Ladak as there is 
nothing to show whether No. 1 wasa “ picked up ” head or not, It may have 
been killed by a Ladakishikari, but more likely it was found after being killed 
by an avalanche, or wolves may have run the ram down in the snow. 
Head of great Tibetan Sheep (O. A. hodgsoni), Shot by Cap. J. Y. Allan. 
(The upward curve of the horns tends to form a circle in this race.) 
