BREEDS OF ASIATIC HIGHLANDS i6i 



in 1906 among the collection of Nepalese animals 

 presented to H.M. King George V., when Prince 

 of Wales, and were exhibited for a time in the 

 Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, where one 

 died ; the other two being removed to the Duke of 

 Bedford's park at Woburn. The skin of the one 

 that died in London is mounted in the Natural 

 History branch of the British Museum. 



Except for the peculiar conformation of their 

 horns, these unicorn rams (pi. xii. fig. 3) accord in 

 all respects with the Barwal, having the same convex 

 chaffron, small truncated ears, and heavy, shaggy 

 fleece. Most of them have the head, neck, horns, 

 and legs black, as in black-faced examples of the 

 Barwal, but in others these parts are pale-coloured. 



The horns are closely applied to one another 

 for the greater part of their length, but they diverge 

 more or less markedly at and near the tips ; their 

 general direction is upwards and backwards in a 

 bold arching sweep. So close is the union between 

 the hollow horny sheaths that these are more or 

 less completely fused together for the greater part 

 of their length ; the united inner surfaces extending 

 down nearly to the bases of the supporting bony 

 horn-cores, so that the latter remain separate from 

 one another ; the separation being completed below 

 the points to which the sheaths extend by a thin 

 vertical plate of bone growing up from the frontal 

 bones of the skull. There is some degree of 



