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pools until it had all disappeared, as the snow sufficed for their wants. 

 However, we might try, and failing my getting one, I could take this head 

 and skin.-!' 



" I tried some camel-steak for dinner, but found it very tough. 



" The specimen the shikari had brought back was a full-grown female, 

 and, junging by her teeth, pretty old. She must have been a very hand- 

 some beast, and in size much the same as the tame species. The head 

 was beautifully shaped, and showed high breeding— very broad across the 

 forehead, with a tapering muzzle. In colour the hair was a bluish grey, 

 rather short, but close and fine, with an undergrowth of pushm; on the 

 head it was so fine as to be more like fur. The bumps, of which there 

 two, were small, and the animal altogether quite a different species from the 

 ordinary Bactrian Camel used in the country, and bred in the hills " (p. 171). 



In Kashmir the author had some very varied sport. In an 

 expedition to Pangi, where he was first in the field, crossing over 

 the Chini Pass — now forbidden as dangerous — he shot ten Ibex, 

 eight Bears, and seven Musk Deer. From there he went to 

 Zanskar, to try for Burrel (Ovis nahura), but saw no heads 

 worth trying for; so proceeded to Leh, whence, after twelve days' 

 march, he reached the Kobrang Valley, where traces of Yak (Bos 

 granniens), were found, and two of these animals were shot, one 

 of them a very fine bull. Moving back to Kiam, in Chang 

 Chenmo, he shot a couple of Antelopes, after some difficult 

 stalking on the open grass plain — presumably Gazella picti- 

 caudata — and crossing over the Marsemik Pass, came across a 

 herd of Burrel, one of which he secured. Two days having 

 been spent unsuccessfully in pursuit of a herd of Ovis ammon, 

 he returned to Kashmir, to plan a fresh excursion up the Rupel 

 Valley, west of Nanga Parbat, into Chilas, in search of Markhor. 

 Great was his joy on discovering a herd of these fine wild gcats, 

 and greater still was his satisfaction when after a successful stalk 

 he shot three of them. The horns " resembled the Kajinag 

 heads as to twist, and were not in the least like the Astor heads." 

 See the figures in Blanford's ' Fauna of British India,' Mammalia, 

 pp. 506, 507. 



Between Yarkand and Aked Major Cumberland had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing a flight at the Jeran Antelope with a trained 

 Eagle, and thus describes the incident : — 



* This the author did, and it was subsequently exhibited on his behalf in 

 London, at a meeting of the Zoological Society, May 17th, 1892. 



