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destitute of horns. The latter, and a young male which I formerly 

 examined at Mr. Leadbeater's, accorded perfectly with the descrip- 

 tion of Mr. Hodgson, having pale slaty-blue hairs, deeper on the 

 back, and tipped with a rufous tint, more particularly on the back, 

 which caused the animal to appear of a pale fulvous or isabelline 

 hue. An old male in the museum of the Linnean Society*, and the 

 aged female in the British Museum, together with another skin 

 which I have seen, have not only no trace of this colour in their 

 present state of pelage, but I doubt whether they showed much of 

 it when their coat was new : the colour of all three is a dingy grey- 

 brown, not easy to express in words. 



" The horns of the Nahoor differ but little in flexure from those 

 of the next 'species, but may nevertheless be distinguished by many 

 differences, in general strongly pronounced : as their superior size ; 

 the greater proportional thickness of the basal half, beyond which 

 they narrow somewhat abruptly ; the flatness of their dorsal aspect, 

 with a much more acutely raised ridge along its middle ; and by the 

 comparative sharpness of all the angles, together with the existence, 

 generally, of some traces of cross striae, more particularly towards their 

 compressed tips ; whereas the horns of the Burrhel Sheep are much less 

 angular, of a deep rufcus-brown colour, and quite smooth. Those of 

 the female Nahoor described were entirely destitute of cross furrows, 

 but all have the marks of annual growth conspicuously indented. 



" This species, according to Mr. Hodgson, ' inhabits the Kachar 

 region of Nepal, northward of the habitat of the Jharal Goat, amid 

 the glaciers of the Himalaya, and both on the Indian and Thibetan 

 sides of that range.' Mr. Vigne informs me that it is plentiful in 

 Great, but not in Little Thibet. I suspect that it is never found at 

 so considerable an altitude as the next species. 



" 7. 0. Burrhel, nobis. Smaller and more robust than the Na- 

 hoor, with shorter ears, and very dark horns ; having no white upon 

 it ; and general colour dark and rich chestnut-brown, with the ordi- 

 nary black markings upon the face, chest, and front of the limbs 

 very distinct ; tail apparently minute. 



"This handsome species bears pretty much the same relationship 

 in appearance to the Nahoor, which the English breed of South 

 Down domestic sheep bears to the Leicester breed, except that there 

 is not so much difference in size. Length of the unique stuffed spe- 

 cimen in the museum of this Society, from nose to tail, 54 inches, 

 l)ut a foot less would probably give the dimensions of the recent 

 animal, as the skin is evidently much stretched ; height of the back 

 32 inches, from which also about 2 inches might be deducted ; from 

 muzzle to base of horn 8 inches, and ears 3^ inches. The horns 

 measure 20 inclies over the uppermost ridge, and 10 round at base, 

 having their tips 25 inches apart ; but those of a specimen noticed 

 in the 'Bengal Sporting Magazine' (for 1839, p. 295) were 25^ 



* Mistaken for Ovis Ammon in the Fauna Americana-horealis, vol. i. 

 p. 274, and for a second specimen of 0. Burrhel in Part G, p. 79, for July 

 ]Oth, 1838, of these ' Froccedings." 



