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transversim indentatis ; divei'gentibus et retrorsum curvatis, sed 

 prope basin rectis, apicibus acclinatis ; colore pallido. Magnitudo 

 Cervi Damce superior, pilis flavescenti-brunneis ; collo jubato, et infia 

 cum pectore brachiisque capillato, cauda elongata extremitate vil- 

 losa ; facie non convexa — ut in omnibus speciebus aliis, sinibusque 

 suborbitalibus nullis. Fcemina semper (?) cornuta, cornibusque for- 

 tioribus quam in fceminis specierum caeterarum hujus generis, qua; 

 ssepe non cornutae sunt, sed plurimae cornua parva, tenuissima, et 

 compressiora ferunt, qua in maribus junioribus aut curvata sunt, 

 aut ssepe rectiora. Habitat apud Africse Septentrionalis montes 

 rupestres." 



This paper on the Sheep was illustrated by numerous drawings ; 

 and the horns of the Rass of Pamir, from the Museum of the R,oyal 

 Asiatic Society, and two pairs of those of the Sim of Little Thibet, 

 and one of the Nahoor Sheep, or Snd, of Great Thibet, brought by 

 G. T. Vigne, Esq., were exhibited. 



Mr. Blyth also exhibited various other coloured drawings and spe- 

 cimens collected chiefly in Little Thibet by Mr. Vigne, among the 

 former of which were several figures of the Yak {Bos grunniens), a 

 highly-finished portrait of the Jharal* of Mr. Hodgson, another of 

 the Ovis Vignii, some sketches of the Ursus isabdlinits, (or Syriacus 

 of Ehrenberg ?) and of Buffaloes of the same breed as that of Italy 

 and Hungaiy, with the long tail, &c., that were drawn from life at 

 Hurriana. 'This race was more esteemed for the quantity of milk it 

 yields than the ordinary Indian Buflfalo, with long horns, a shorter 

 tail, &c., and is doubtless the same, in the opinion of Mr. Blyth, as 

 the Guzurat race indicated in Dr. Buchanan's ' Journey through 

 Mysore,' &c., which that author, however, observed at Seringapa- 

 tam. It appears to be scantily diffused throughout India, becoming 

 rarer to the eastward. 



Among the specimens was the horn of a Stag, from Kashmir, 

 which Mr. Blyth suspected would prove to be the C. Wallichii of 

 Duvaucel, or a closely allied species, a description of which may be 

 expected from Dr. Falconer. The specimen exhibited was 44 inches 

 long, and 8 inches round above burr : it had a brow, a bez, and 

 royal antlers, the bez a foot in length, and longest of the three, and 



• " This animal is mostly known as the Tehr, T/iaar, or Thar, to the 

 westward of NepSl, a name applied by Mr. Hodgson to a very diiferent 

 animal, which is usually called Surow, or Surrow. The first of these names, 

 as suggested to me by Col. H. Smith, is clearly a modification of the Teuton 

 'fhur, ramifying into Tliier, Deer, &c. &c. &'c. Snrow, or Surrow, again 

 passes into various other names, applied to different Himalayan Ruminants; 

 as Jerow or Jerrow for the Cervus Aridotelis, Serow and Ckirew (pronounced 

 with a soft 'Ch') for the Panthahps chiru, Hodgson, &c. Then we have 

 Jharal, Goral, Goornl, Baral, Boorul, Burrhel, Boorhoor, Nayoor, Nahoor, 

 and even the Persian Moral may be derived from the same root. These 

 names, too, are all severally applied to different animals, whence it often re- 

 quires much caution in endeavouring to ascertain what species is intended." 

 — E. B. 



