1S8 H. H. Godwin- Austen — On a Four -horned Sheep. [August, 



Major Godwin- Austen said that when in Kishtwar and Budrawar he 

 had noticed that four-horned rams were rather common and in the larger 

 flocks one or two would be seen ; he had purchased one with very sym- 

 metrical horns, which he had kept for a long time. However, in most of 

 them the horns were very crooked and badly set on. The people evidently 

 kept these accidental varieties, looking on them as curiosities, and asking 

 a longer price for them. He had never come across this kind of ".sport" 

 in any other part of the Kashmir Himalaya : it seemed a local peculiarity 

 fostered by the retention of these males. 



