1841.] Two wild species of Sheep in the Himalayas. 231 



blue, paled on the surface, and more or less tinted with rufous : dorsal 

 ridge dark and embrowned : lips, chin, belly, and insides of limbs near 

 it, dull hoary : limbs externally, below the central flexures, rufescent 

 hoary : snout to base of tail seventy to seventy-two inches : mean 

 height forty-two : head straight to crest of frontals, fourteen : tail with 

 the hair, eight : ears, six : horns, along the curve, forty. 



Females smaller, with much smaller, compressed (?) nearly straight 

 horns. Young, with the colours deeper and more sordid. Vulgo, 

 Banbhera and Bhaaral. 



Ovis Ndhoor, Nob. Medial sized wild Sheep, with moderate, subtrigo- 

 nal, uncompressed horns, presenting a rounded surface obliquely to the 

 front, and a cultrated edge to the rear, inserted nearly in contact on the 

 crest of the frontals, less remote from the orbits, and directed upwards 

 and outwards with a semicircular sweep ; the rounded points being 

 again recurved backwards and inwards, and the general surface va- 

 guely marked with infrequent rugae : forehead broad and flat : chaffron 

 arched : muzzle less attenuated : ears erect, short, and striated, and tail 

 short and deer-like, as in the last : vesture or fur also similar, without 

 beard or mane : general colour dull slaty blue, paled on the surface, and 

 more or less tinted there with brownish or fawn : head below, and belly 

 and insides of the limbs near it, yellowish white : face, or nose rather, 

 fronts of the intire limbs, a connecting band along the flanks, whole 

 chest and tip of the tail, black : no disk on the buttocks : their mere 

 margin and that of the tail, paled. Snout to rump sixty inches : mean 

 height thirty-six ; head, as before, eleven : tail with the hair seven and 

 three quarters : ears five and three quarters : horns along the curve, 

 twenty-four. Females smaller, with small straightish, suberect, de- 

 pressed horns, directed upwards chiefly, and with the dark marks on 

 the limbs and chest less extended than in the male ; frequently the chest 

 is wholly unmarked. Young, with the colours deeper and more sordid ; 

 the marks still less extended, and wanting wholly on the chest and 

 flanks. Vulgo Ndhoor of the Nepalese. 



N. B. Since the Prince of Musignano has published his account of the 

 Musmon, it has become quite evident that our Ndhoor cannot be 

 identified with that species; and though the vaguer accounts of the 

 Asiatic Argali render a like confident judgment in regard to the inde- 

 pendence thereon of Ammonoides difficult of attainment, yet all 



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