1842.] Notice of the Mammals of Tibet. 283 



Genus Capra, Wild. 



28. Capra Ibex.* Found on the Tibetan slopes of the Himalaya, 

 and in the other high mountains of Tibet, north of Lassa and Digurchee, 

 as well as towards the frontier of China. Have no specimen thence. 



29. Genus Capra, tame. The shawl goats, of which there are three 

 races, diminishing in size from the common or standard one, abound all 

 over Tibet, almost to the exclusion of other species. The finest breed 

 is that of Naree or Eastern Tibet, near the snowy region : but the wool 

 is good all along the Hemachal on both slopes, and some years ago the 

 minister of Nepal established at Katmandoo a colony of Cashmirees to 

 make shawls. Why not we in Kumaoon, or West of it ? 



Genus Ovis, Wild. 



30. 31, 32. Three species, Ammon, Ammonoides and Nahoor. All 

 are said to be found in the mountains of the interior of Tibet, as well as 

 on the Tibetan slopes of the Hemachal, where, however, the Nahoor spe- 

 cies is the most common ; but I have lately received a fine pair of horns, 

 with the frontlet attached, of Ammonoides vel Ammon, (si sic decretum 



fuerit,) from the same region ; viz. the Mustang district. Ammon the 

 monster, with the monstrous horns, is, I believe, distinct and most 

 common in, if not limited to, the Tartar regions confining with Tibet 

 on its North. Mr. Blyth's Ovis Burrhel is no other than my Nahoor, 

 Mr. B.'s specimen of which was dyed brown by a preservative lotion 

 that was applied by the killer and curer of it, Lieut. Smith, 15th N. I. ! !f 



* C. Sakeen, Nobis. Distinct from the Alpine Ibex, and still more so from that 

 of Siberia. — Ibid. 



f There is a Rowland for Mr. Blyth's Oliver, given however in all courtesie. The 

 local Naturalist must be pardoned a smile when the Master of a Library and Museum, 

 confounding the essentials with the accessories of species, edits a new being as unskil- 

 fully as his unprovided ally of the field department. 



Note by Mr. Blyth.— Mr. Hodgson will, I trust, consent to suppress his smile, and 

 thus further extend his courtesie to me, when I inform him, that I was originally in- 

 duced to distinguish Ovis Burrhel from O Nahoor, in consequence of the decided 

 difference in the sectional form and general aspect of the horns of these two species. 

 I happened to be employing an artist to draw the specimen of O. Burrhel in the 

 Zoological Society's Museum, when chancing to take up a frontlet of O. Nahoor that 

 was lying beside me, and holding it to the stuffed Burrhel's head, I saw at a glance 

 that they were distinct species, and I subsequently (as mentioned in my paper on 

 the species of wild Sheep) met with another specimen of a Burrhel's horn, wherein the 

 specific character was equally well marked. 



The ears of O. Burrhel are also conspicuously shorter than in O. Nahoor; and the 

 tail appears to be reduced to a mere rudiment : it has been thought, indeed, that the 



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