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Also I should be glad if anyone can give exact information as to the race 

 or aberration, of sheep in Nepal, in which the rams have the two horns 

 united in one; These sheep have been imported more than once to Eng- 

 land, and there are living ones now in the menagerie of the Duke of 

 Bedford. But as no females have been seen, it has been suggested that 

 the junction of the two short upright horns is artificially proceeded, by 

 binding together the horns of the lamb when young. 



Another sheep about which I can find no recent or exact information is. 

 the large coarse woolled breed used in Ladak for carrying salt. Though a 

 great deal has been written both by shikaris and zoologists about the wild 

 sheep of Asia, yet so far as I can learn no one has as yet made any serious 

 attempt to describe or illustrate the domestic races, and there is little 

 doubt that a careful study of them, would have great economic importance. 

 The Karakul breed from Bokhara has now been introduced to the 

 United States, with the idea of producing the fine curly skins which 

 are imported at a high and increasing price, under the name of Persian 

 lambskins. Might it not be possible to breed these successfully in 

 parts of the North-West Himalayas, or does the character of the wool 

 degenerate in other parts of Asia ? On this important question we know 

 next to nothing. 



COLESBORNE, NK, ChELXENHAII, H. J. ELWES. 



September 1911. 



No. VI.— THE BANTING Oil TSAIN(4 {BOS SONUAICUS). 



Early in December 1910 I was fortunate enough to be marching through 

 one of the uninhabited forest tracts of Upper Burma and after several days 

 of moving camp halted in the middle of the forest for a day oft'. My camp 

 was near a good stream and the hills along its banks are at certain times 

 the haunt of tsaing {Bos sondaicus) so I thought it worth while to take a 

 look round. I had an excellent old Burmese shikari with me and we left 

 camp soon after seven and slowly walked up one of the spurs until we found 

 a narrow winding game tract which we followed for a couple of miles. The 

 grass was getting dry and the surface was hard and stonj' so I had on 

 India rubber soled boots. Less than three miles from camp we came to a 

 fork in the path and the old man hesitated for some time before taking the 

 right hand path, a momentous decision as it chanced. We went on care- 

 fully looking out for tracts, myself in front and the two Burmans a little 

 way behind. Within half a mile I suddenly spotted ten yards below the 

 path a fine bull grazing among the scrubby trees and quite unconscious of 

 an enemy's presence and was able without trouble to drop him in his tracks 

 with a soft-nosed bullet behind the shoulder from a 500 high velocity rifle. 

 He died almost at once and I thouaht it an excellent chance to return and 



