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ther, and again stops to gaze. They pasture in the deep hollows 

 and grassy glens. The Society's specimen was met with near the 

 Boorendo Pass, at an altitude estimated to have been from 15,000 to 

 17,000 feet. The notice in the * Bengal Sporting Magazine' refers to 

 the same locality ; and another notice most probably alludes to this 

 species, in Lieut. Button's ' Journal of a Trip through Kunawar,' 

 published in the 'Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society' for 1839, p. 

 994.* Finally, Mr. Leadbeater informed me, that the horn described 

 as having been in his possession was brought from Nep^il, together with 

 specimens of the Nahoor and Musk, and the skull and horns of a Hima- 

 layan Ibex, which I also examined. 



8. O. Cylindricornis, nobis, (the Caucasian Argali.)— Colonel Hamil- 

 ton Smith notices this animal in his description of O. Ammofi, (published 

 in Griffith's English edition of the *' Regne Animal,'' vol. iv. p. 317,) and 

 writes me word, that an individual died on landing it at Toulon, whither 

 it had been brought by a French Consul, who did not preserve the skull 

 or skin, but set up the horns, which were quite fresh when he saw 

 them. " Each horn was about 3 feet long, arcuated, round, as thick 

 at the top as at the base, of a brown colour, nearly smooth, and about 

 15 inches in circumference. They were so heavy and unmanageable," 

 writes Colonel Smith, " that I could not lift both together from the 

 ground, nor place them in that kind of juxta-position, which would have 

 given me an idea of their appearance on the head. I could not well de- 

 termine which was the right, or which the left horn. Circumstances 

 prevented my taking a second view of them, as they arrived only the 

 day before I left Paris, and they are now doubtless in the Musuera of 

 that capital." In my former paper I alluded to this animal as probably 

 distinct, and apparently allied to the Burrhel : the foregoing details 

 confirm me in that opinion, and remove all doubt of its distinctness, 

 as there is no other species to which they will at all apply. The sketch 



* More recently, I perceive that Lieut. Hutton has identified the animal here referred 

 to with O. Nahoor (vide ' Journal,' 1840, p. 568), but it is probable that both species 

 are found there, and they cannot well be confounded after the description which I 

 have given of O. Burrhel. Of i]\Q Ovis Ammon, Lieut. Hutton observes, " I could 

 learn nothing, save that an animal apparently answering to the description is found 

 in Chinese Tartary, and J saw an enormous pair of the horns nailed, among other 

 kinds, to a tree as an offering to Devi." These, however, may have belonged to 

 O. Polii. — E. B. 



