1020 On the tame Sheep, fyc. of Tibet. [Oct. 



smaller horns nearly void of spiral flexure. But they are bearded, like 

 the males, and otherwise entirely resemble them. The rutting season 

 is early winter : the period of procreation, early summer : and the 

 gestation of about 5^ months, or some 10 days beyond the fifth 

 month, as in the sheep.* One, two, very rarely three, young are 

 produced at a birth. The females begin to breed in the first year of 

 their age : the males to procreate in their second year. They are at 

 their best at 8, old at 10, decrepid at 15, and seldom live beyond 15 

 to 20 years. I have no memorandum of their intestines. Perhaps the 

 most general colour of the Changra is white, tinged with slaty blue. 

 But the white is seldom unmixed, and the limbs and sides of the head 

 are apt to be dark. There are frequent dark patches on the body, and 

 often the whole body is black or tan, the limbs only and face being 

 white. 



2. Capita Chdpic. — The Chyapu and Chapu of the northern region 

 of the sub-Himalayas. This breed bears the same relation to the 

 Changra as the Cagia sheep to the Barwal, that is, it is invariably of 

 much smaller size than the Changra, and has a different habitat, with 

 great general similarity of structure and appearance, yet not wanting 

 points of diversity. The ears of the Chyapu are invariably smaller, 

 and less pendant than those of the Changra ; and what is very deserv- 

 ing of attention the feet pits are not constant in the Chyapu, but are 

 occasionally wanting, as in the Dugii, a species presently to be 

 described. In the majority of the goats of these regions, the feet pits 

 are present in the anteal extremities without variation : but they are 

 sometimes wholly wanting in all 4 feet of the Chyapu and Sinai ; 

 frequently so in all 4 of the Dugu ; and hence we may learn that this 

 mark is more normal in the sheep than in the goats, and that it has 

 a strong tendency to obliteration in the latter. The Chyapu is further 

 distinguished from the Changra by the very various flexure of the 

 horns of the former, which are sometimes erect and sometimes curved 

 backwards in the sickle style ; sometimes spirally twisted and some- 

 times not so ; and, again, the ears of the Chyapu, always short as 

 compared with those of the Changra, are occasionally so in the extreme, 

 bearing the turncated appearance of the same organs in the Barwal. 



* I have taken all possible pains to determine this point, and am fully aware that the 

 statement of the text conflicts with received opinions. 



