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fore-legs above the knees is tawny black, with a 

 streak of the same extending part way down the 

 front below the white knee. Elsewhere the lower 

 portion of the fore-legs is white, as is the same part 

 in the hind-limbs ; the upper portion of the latter 

 being coloured like the back, but gradually darken- 

 ing towards the hock. The tail is whitish. 



The summer coat is very different, the general 

 colour of the upper-parts being chestnut, with, in 

 place of the divided saddle-patch, a chevron of 

 whitish spots with a dark band in front ; while the 

 black flank-stripe is reduced to a patch behind the 

 shoulder. The face is greyish yellow, with large 

 dark spots on the muzzle, and the same black stripe 

 connecting the eye with the angle of the mouth. 

 The neck-mane and throat-ruff are practically 

 absent. 



The general character of the horns is much the 

 same as in the more typical races of the urial, from 

 all of which the Laristan sheep is distinguished by 

 the dark colour of the winter coat and the divided 

 saddle-patch. 



The locally variable wild sheep known in the 

 Salt Range of the Punjab as the urial, in Astor as 

 the urin, in Ladak as the sha or shapo, and arkal 

 in the Ust-Urt plateau, to the west of Lake Aral, 

 forms a species, Ovis vignei, distinguished from the 

 red sheep by the horns normally being directed 

 forwards by the sides of the face, so that the right 



