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subtriangular, and uniformly wrinkled across, except near the tips, 

 where they are rounded and smooth, keeled and sharpened towards 

 the points, obtusely rounded behind ; the edge of the keel neither 

 nodose nor undulated, but smooth, or evanescently marked by the 

 transverse wrinkles of the horns. The horns are divergent, simply 

 recurved, and directed more upwards than backwards. 



" Colour of the animal a saturate brown superficially, but inter- 

 nally hoary blue, and the mane, for the most part, wholly of that 

 hue. Fore arms, lower part of hams, and backs of the legs, rusty. 

 Entire fronts of the limbs, and whole face and cheeks, black-brown ; 

 the dark colour on the two last parts divided by a longitudinal line 

 of pale rufous ; and another before the eye, shorter. Lips and chin 

 hoary, with a blackish patch on either side below the gape. Tip of 

 tail and of ears blackish. Tongue and palate, and nude skin of lips 

 and muzzle, black. Iris darkish red hazel. Odour very powerful in 

 the mature male at certain times. 



" Found in the wild state in the Kachar region of Nepal, in small 

 flocks or solitarily. Is bold, capricious, wanton, eminently scanso- 

 rial, pugnacious, and easily tamed and acclimatised in foreign parts. 



" Remarks. Jhdral is closely affined by the character of the 

 horns to the Alpine ^gagri, and still more nearly, in other respects, 

 to Capra Jemlaica. It differs from the former by the less volume of 

 the horns, by their smooth anterior edge, and by the absence of the 

 beard ; from the latter, by the horns being much less compressed, 

 not turned inwards at the points, nor nodose. Jhdral breeds with 

 the domestic Goat, and more nearly resembles the ordinary types of 

 the tame races than any wild species yet discovered. 



Genus Ovis, Linn. 



" Species Ovis Ndhobr, Mihi. — The Ndhoor of the Nepalese. New.^ 

 Variety of Ovis Musmon } 



" Closely aflined to Ovis Musmon, of which it is probably only a 

 variety. Adult male 48 inches from snout to rump, and 32 high. 

 Head coarse and expressionless, clad entirely in close short hair, 

 without beard on the chin or throat, or any semblance of mane. 

 Chaffron considerably arched. Ears medial, narrow, erect, pointed, 

 striated. Eye duU. Moist space between the naves evanescent. 

 Nares narrow and long. Knees and sternum callous. Tail medial, 

 cylindrico-depressed, only half nude below. Structure moderately 

 compact, not remarkable for power. Neck sparish, bowed, with a 

 considerable dip from the crown of the shoulders. Limbs longish, 

 firm, but slender, not remarkable for rigidity, and supported on lax 

 pasterns, and on hoofs lower and less compact than the Goat's ; false 

 hoofs mere Ccdlosities. Attitude of rest less gathered and firm, with 

 the head lower, and the back straight. Shoulders decidedly lower 

 than croup. Fore quarters not more massive than the hind, nor the 

 extremities stronger. Fur of two sorts : the outer, hair of a harsh, 

 brittle, quill-like character, serpentined internally, with the salient 

 bows of one hair fitting into the resilient bends of another ; exter- 

 nally straight, porrect from the skin, and very abundant ; of medial 

 uniform length all over the body ; the inner coat, soft and woolly, 



