492 On the Wild Sheep [Sept. 



edge of the keel not nodose, and usually but faintly marked by the 

 continuation over it of the transverse wrinkles of the horns. 



The horns are divergent, and directed more upwards than back- 

 wards : their points are slightly inclined inwards. The colour of 

 the animal is a saturate brown superficially, but internally, hoary blue; 

 and the mane, for the most part, wholly of that hue ; fore arms, 

 lower part of hams, and backs of the legs, rusty ; entire fronts of 

 the limbs, and whole face and cheeks, black-brown ; the dark colour 

 on the two last parts divided by a longitudinal line of pale rufous, 

 and another before the eye, shorter ; lips and chin hoary, with a black- 

 ish patch on either side below the gape ; tip of tail and of ears, black- 

 ish ; tongue and palate, and nude skin of tips and muzzle, black ; iris, 

 darkish red hazel. Odour very powerful in the mature male, especi- 

 ally at certain times. Is found in the wild state in the Kachar region 

 of Nipal, in small flocks or solitarily ; is bold, capricious, wanton, 

 eminently scansorial, pugnacious, and easily tamed, and acclimatised 

 in foreign parts. 



Remarks. Jhdral is closely affined by the character of the horns to 

 the Alpine GEgagri, and still more nearly, in other respects, to Jemlaica. 

 It differs from the former by the less volume of the horns, by their 

 smoother anterior edge, and by the absence of the beard ; — from the 

 latter, by horns much less compressed and nodose. Jharal breeds 

 with the domestic Goat, and perhaps more nearly resembles the or- 

 dinary model of the tame races than any wild species yet discovered, 

 The western type of the Himalayan wild goat (called Tehr, at Simla 

 and Musuri) has the anterior edge of the horns decidedly nodose, 

 though less so than in C. Jemlaica. 



The Wild Sheep. Genus — Ovis. 

 Species — 0. Ndhoor, mihi. 



The Ndhoor of the Nipalese. New ? variety of 0. Musmon ? 

 Closely affined to Musmon, of which it is possibly only a vari- 

 ety. Adult male, 48 to 54 inches from snout to rump, and 32 

 to 36 high. Head coarse and expressionless, clad entirely in close 

 short hair, without beard on the chin or throat, or any sem- 

 blance of mane. ChafFron considerably arched. Ears medial, nar- 

 row, erect, pointed, striated. Eye dull, moist space between the 

 narcs, evanescent ; nares narrow and long. Knees and sternum 

 callous ; tail medial, cylindrico-depressed, only ^ nude below. Struc- 

 ture moderately compact, not remarkable for power. Neck spa- 

 rish, bowed, with a considerable dip from the crown of the shoulders. 

 Limbs longish, firm, but slender, not remarkable for rigidity, and sup- 

 ported on laxer pasterns, and on hoofs lower and less compact than 



