296 CAFRIHA. 



distance the Oorial is a game-lookiiig animal, looking mote like an 

 antelope than a sheep, and it is very speedy and active over rocky and stony 

 ground. Hutton remarks that it possesses "a moderate sized lachrymal 

 sinus, which appears to secrete, or at all events contains a thick gummy 

 substance of good consistency and of a dull grayish color. The Afghan 

 and Belooch hunters make use of this gum by spreading it over the pans of 

 their matchlocks to prevent the damp from injuring the priming." 



The nearly allied Ovis Vignei, Blyth, is the Sha-poo or Shd of Tibet 

 and Ladak, Ovis montana apud Cunningham, and is not found in general 

 below 12,000 feet of elevation in summer. It is found in the Hindoo 

 Koosh, the Pamir range, and west as far as the Caspian sea ; also in Ladak. 

 Further east it is replaced by the next species. In this the horns are more 

 strongly wrinkled, curve outwards and backwards with divergent points, 

 and do not tend to form so complete a circle as in cycloceros. The color 

 of the sheep is brownish or reddish gray, and its beard is short. The 

 suborbital pits are smaller, deeper, and more rounded in cycloceros, the 

 nasal bones are shorter ; and the series of molar teeth is also shorter than 

 in 0. Vignei. 



The next sheep was placed by Hodgson as the type of his genus Pseu- 

 dois, with smooth and sub-cylindrical horns that form a bold arc outwards, 

 and have the tip turned backward. They have no eye-pits, and want the 

 mane and beard of the last group. 



237. Ovis nahura. 



Hodgson.— BiYTH, Cat. 549. — 0. nahoor, Hodgson. — O. Burhel, 

 Blyth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VII. 248, with figure. — Bharal and 

 Bharur, in the Himalayas; the male Menda — Wa or W&r, on the Sutlej. — 

 Nervati, in Nepal. — Na or Sna of Ladak and Tibet. 



The Burhel, ok Blub Wild Sheep. 



Descr. — Horns moderately smooth, with the wrinkles not numerous, 

 rounded, nearly touching at the base, directed upwards, backwards, and 

 outwards with a semi-circular sweep, then the rounded points, are recurved 

 forwards and inward. Color of the pelage dull slaty-blue, more or less 

 tinted with fawn-color or pale earthy-brown; beneath yellowish-white; 

 the nose, front of limbs, a band along the flanks, the chest and the tip of 

 the tail black ; the edge of the buttocks behind, and the tail pure white. 



