1847.] On the tame Sheep, tyc. of Tibet. 1021 



Lastly, the Chyapu is neither so frequently nor so much coloured as 

 the Changra. The Chyapu is a small breed, fully a \ less than the 

 Changra. It measures from snout to vent 3 to 3j feet, and has a 

 medium height of 1^- to If feet. Head straight, 7\ inches or 10 by 

 the curve. Tail without the hair, ?>\ : with it, 6^ inches. Ears 3 to 4 

 inches. Girth behind the shoulder 2 feet. Horns by the curve \\ to \\ 

 feet. Their basal girth, 6 inches. Weight of the animal 70 to 80 ibs. 



The long hair and fine sub-fleece, the ample forelock and beard 

 common to both sexes, the sexes both horned, the invariable absence 

 of the eye and groin pits, the feet pits present in fore feet only, the 

 long straight face, short arched forehead, keen and saucy eye, short 

 spare neck, long full body, low rigid limbs, short high hoofs, conic 

 obtuse false hoofs, and short depressed tail ; and, lastly, the invariable 

 two teats, are marks alike of the Changra and Chyapu. But the gay 

 and independant look of both is augmented in the lesser breed by the 

 finer and more mobile ear, which has all the mobility of the wild state, 

 and is now horizontal, now erect, now forward, and anon backward, as 

 each internal impulse or external signal may prompt. 



The horns of the Chyapu, as of the Changra, have all the normal 

 characters of the genus, that is, they are inserted obliquely on the top 

 of the head, in contact ; and are directed chiefly upwards and backwards. 

 They are keeled, sharpened to the front, widened to the back, and 

 much more compressed than in the Changra, and have a long ovoid 

 section, and their transverse wrinkling is not nodose nor heavy nor 

 distant, but slight and crouded, going all round pretty equally. The 

 females are not much less than the males, nor are their horns very 

 materially less, nor different in form. The prevalent colour is white; 

 but some are mottled or blotched with black or with tan ; and the 

 belly and limbs and a lateral mark down the head from horns to 

 nostrils, are often dark. So too are the ears ; whilst the prevalent 

 white colour is frequently flavescent and straw tinged. 



The Chapus rut in winter and procreate in spring, gestating some- 

 what more than 5 months or about 1G0 days; and with regard to 

 maturity, senility and death, they show little or no difference from the 

 Changras. They are of strong constitutions and hardy habits, but 

 love cold and short aromatic pastures, and as these can be found only 

 in the Cachar region of the cis -Himalayan mountains, to it the Chya- 



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