868 A 3Ionograph of the species of Wild Sheep. [No. 119. 



the animal to appear of a pale fulvous or isabelline hue. An old 

 male in the Museum of the Linnsean Society,* and the aged female in 

 the British Museum, together with another skin which I have seen, 

 have not only no trace of this colour in their present state of pelage, 

 but I doubt whether they shewed much of it when their coat was new : 

 the colour of all three is a dingy grey-brown, not easy to express in 

 words. 



The horns of the Nahoor differ but little in flexure from those of the 

 next species, but may nevertheless be distinguished by many dif- 

 ferences, in general strongly pronounced ; as their superior size ; the 

 greater proportional thickness of the basal half, beyond which they nar- 

 row somewhat abruptly ; the flatness of their dorsal aspect, with a 

 much more acutely raised ridge along its middle ; and by the compara- 

 tive sharpness of all the angles, together with the existence, generally, 

 of some traces of cross -striae, more particularly towards their com- 

 pressed tips ; whereas the horns of the Burrhel Sheep are much 

 less angular, of a deep rufous-brown colour, and quite smooth. Those 

 of the female Nahoor described were entirely destitute of cross- 

 furrows ; but all have the marks of annual growth conspicuously 

 indented. 



This species, according to Mr. Hodgson, " inhabits the Kachar 

 region of Nepal, northward of the habitat of the Jharal Goat, amid the 

 glaciers of the Himalaya, and both on the Indian and Tibetan sides of 

 that range." Mr. Vigne informs me, that it is plentiful in Great 

 but not in Little Tibet. 1 suspect that it is never found at so consi- 

 derable an altitude as the next species. 



7. O. Burrhel, nobis. — Smaller and more robust than the Nahoor, 

 with shorter ears, and very dark horns ; having no white upon it ; and 

 general colour dark and rich chestnut-brown, or mahogany, with 

 the ordinary black markings upon the face, chest, and front of the 

 limbs, very distinct ; tail apparently minute. 



This handsome species bears pretty much the same relationship 

 in appearance to the Nahoor, which the English breed of South Down 

 domestic Sheep bears to the Leicester breed, except that there is 



* Mistaken for Ovis Ammon in the Fauna Americana Borealis, vol. i. p. '274, nap 

 for a second specimen of O. Burrhel in part 6, p. 79, for July 10, 1838, of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society.— E. B. 



