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race, and very short, semi-truncated ears, depressed by the incumbency 

 of the horns. 



The rams are celebrated for their courage and pugnacity. The 

 wool is good, but far inferior to that of the Huniah or Bhoteah sheep, 

 which, though naturalized in the Kachar, is of trans-Himalayan origin, 

 and still scarce as compared with the Barual, immense flocks of which 

 native species are reared in the Kachar. 



The Huniah is a large, tall breed, with slender, compressed, spi- 

 rally-twisted, horns, and short narrow tail. The colour is almost 

 invariably white. Individuals of this species are apt to have 3, 4, and 

 even 5 horns. The Huniah cannot bear the heats of Nepal, south of 

 the northern division, and will doubtless flourish in England, where the 

 experiment is making of naturalizing it. Its wool is superb*. The 

 tame sheep of the central region, or Kago, as it is named by the Par- 

 battiahs, is a small breed, bearing all the characters of the Barual ; 

 from which variety it evidently sprung at no very remote period : horns 

 and tail, as in the Barual : ears longer, pointed, directed forwards and 

 downwards : chaffron less arched : fleece finer, shorter, spirally curled, 

 almost always white. 



The lower hills have no peculiar breed of sheep. Goats and sheep, 

 rare in the central, are almost unknown in the southern hills: but both, 

 and especially the latter, are very numerous in the northern division. 



The domesticated cows of the Kachar are large and variously 

 colored like those of England : the cows of the central region small, and 

 black or red, like those of the Highlands of Scotland. But in the second, 

 the hump is conspicuous ; and not absent in the first. The Bos grun- 

 niens or Yak of Tibet likewise flourishes in the Kachar : but not south 

 of it. It is a mere foolish error to suppose the milk of the Yak not good. 



There are no wild animals of the Bovine kind in any part of Nepal, save 

 the southern, where, as far as I know, the wild buffalo alone represents 

 the genus — the Gayal or wild Bull of the Indian mountains being un- 

 known to us. 



Family Solipeda. 

 Wild animals of this family are utterly unknown to Nepal ; and in 

 the domesticated state we have only some small varieties of the Tibetan 

 pony, called here Tanghan : and though coarser and heavier, somewhat 



* N. B. Should this paper meet the eye of any wealthy and spirited individual 

 in England, who may be disposed to forward the experiment in question, I 

 beg to say, I shall be happy to assist him. Let him refer to Messrs. Mackintosh, 

 and Co. Calcutta. 



