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inches long, with a girth of 11^ inches; and a horn of this same 

 species, which I examined at Mr. Leadbeater's, had attained a length 

 of 2 feet, and circumference of 11 inches at base, liaving a span of 

 14 inches from base to tip inside, and numbering at least ten indi- 

 cations of annual growth, and probably at least one more towards 

 the tip, which could not be made out with certainty. The respective 

 lengths of these were successively 10|, 2^, 2^, 1|, 1;^, 1^, 1, 1, ^, 

 and the basal 5, inches. The coat of the Burrhel Sheep is rather long, 

 and harsher than that of the Nahoor, having less wool concealed 

 beneath it than in the Moufflon and Rocky Mountain species. The 

 female is undescribed, and I have met with no other specimens than 

 are here mentioned. 



" In the description of the preceding species, the principal differ- 

 ences are stated which distinguish the horns of that animal from those 

 of the present one. The Burrhel's horns have all the ridges rounded 

 off, though still sufficiently distinct, and the marks of annual growth 

 are deeply indented, the horn bulging a little between them. Upon 

 a front view, the backward curvature of the tips disappears altogether, 

 and the animal has an imposing appearance, finer than that of the 

 Nahoor. Its colour is much darker than that of the Moufflon. 



" The Burrhel would seem to inhabit a much loftier region of the 

 Himalaya than the Nahoor, where it bounds lightly over the en- 

 crusted snow, at an altitude where its human pursuers find it difficult 

 to breathe. It has the bleat of the domestic species, as indeed they 

 all have, and is very shy and difficult of approach. Flocks of from 

 ten to twenty have been observed, conducted by an old male, which 

 make for the snowy peaks upon alarm, while their leader scrambles 

 up some crag to reconnoitre, and if shot at and missed, bounds off 

 a few paces further, and again stops to gaze. They pasture in the 

 deep hollows and grassy glens. The Society's specimen was met 

 with near the Boorendo Pass, at an altitude estimated to have been 

 from 15,000 to 17,000 feet. The notice in the 'Bengal Sporting 

 Magazine' refers to the same locality ; and another notice most pro- 

 bably alludes to this species, in Lieut. Hutton's ' Journal of a Trip 

 through Kunawar,' published in the ' Journal of the Bengal Asiatic 

 Society' for 1839, p. 994. Finally, Mr. Leadbeater informed me that 

 the horn described as having been in his possession was brought 

 from Nepal, together with specimens of the Nahoor and Musk, and 

 the skull and horns of a Himalaya Ibex, which I also examined. 



"8. 0. cyUndricornis , nobis (the Caucasian Argali). Col. Ha- 

 milton Smith notices this animal in his description of 0. Ammon 

 (published in Griffiths's English Edition of the ' llegne Animal,' vol. 

 iv. p. 317), and writes me word that an individual died on landing 

 it at Toulon, whither it had been brought by a French consul, who 

 did not preserve the skull or skin, but set up the horns, which were 

 quite fresh when he saw them. ' Each horn was about 3 feet long, 

 arcuated, round, as thick at the top as at the base, of a brown co- 

 lour, nearly smooth, and about 15 inches in circumference. 'I'hey 

 were so heavy and unmanageable,' writes Col. Smith, ' that I could 

 not lift both together from the ground, nor- place them in that kind 



