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Can you tell me if this is the authenticated record for Cis-Indus ? The 

 Trans-Indus Wana record is, I believe, 40 in. obtained sometime dviring the 

 last hot weather. I see the Indian Field Shikar Book mentions one of 38|- 

 in. shot near Attock, but it does not seem to be authenticated. 



This same book implies that the Oorial and the Shapoo are indentical. 

 Is this correct ? I have never shot Shapoo but have shot a considerable 

 number of Oorial, and have seen a great many of their heads from Bal- 

 uchistan, Wazristan and Cis-Indus. I have certainly seen some Shapoo 

 heads in which the ends of the horns seemed to curve back slightly some- 

 thing like Burrhel horns, but I have never seen this in a single Corial 

 head. 



H. V. BIGGS, Colonel. 

 Rawalpindi, Qth January 1912. 



[The Oorial or Shapoo are practically the same, the Shapoo being the Laclak 

 name for the Oorial. The Cis-Indus variety is Ovis vignei cycloccros and 

 the record head, according- to Rowland Ward's " Records of Big Game, (5th 

 Edition)" is 39J (length on front curve), 10| (circumference), Punjab (locality), 

 Major F. H. Taylor (owner). We reproduce the photograph of Colonel Bigg's 

 37i Oorial.— Eds.] 



No. IV.— THE SO-CALLED ONE-HORNED SHEEP OF 

 NEPAL AND OTHER BREEDS. 



(With a Plate.) 



I send a photograph of three of the typical breeds of Sheep in Nepal. 

 The Prime Minister Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere Jung has very 

 kindly collected and presented me with a pair each of these three kinds of 

 Sheep. 



The Sheep in the photograph are as follows : — 



(1) Barwal (ram). 



(2) Do. (ewe). 



(3) Hunia (ram). 



(4) Do. (ewe). 



(5) Kagi (ram). 



(6) Do. (ewe). 



(7) Do. (lamb). 



The rams of Barwal and Kagi make good fighting rams. The Hunia is 

 sometimes used as a beast of burden. All three kinds are short- tailed 

 sheep. There is another breed of Tibetan sheep which sometimes comes to 

 Nepal, viz., the Silling, which is the sheep mostly used to carry burdens. 

 The Maharaja has not yet succeeded in obtaining a typical pair of these, 

 bat I believe they may be procured later. 



