1847.] On the tame Sheep, fyc, of Tibet. 1023 



The short forehead arched. The oblique small muzzle quite hairy and 

 dry. The small pale eye void of any trace of eye pits below it. The 

 largish narrow and pointed ears quite pendant. The moderately com- 

 pressed horns set on with the full usual obliquity on the top of the 

 head and in contact at their sharp keeled anterior edge, but separate 

 and rounded behind, with an ovoid section and medial uniform wrink- 

 ling that is carried f towards the flat smooth tips. The direction 

 of the horns is upwards and outwards with great divergency for a goat, 

 and a single lax spiral turn leaving the points directed upwards and a 

 little backwards. The neck is spare. The body long yet compact. 

 The limbs sufficiently elevated, stout and rigid, and like the body, 

 though of course in less degree, showing all the usual tendency to ex- 

 cessive-hairiness. The hoofs short, high, with rigid pasterns and large 

 conic false hoofs. Feet pits in fore feet only or in neither : and medial 

 conico-depressed tail carried curvately erected by the males who, as 

 well as the females, have an ample beard and a moderate forelock. 

 Teats two, as in all the rest. Females smaller but horned ; the horns 

 smaller and scarcely spirated. Colours white, or black, or brown, with 

 white or fawn face and limbs ; pure white being rarer than in any of 

 the foregone by much. The Sinai is seldom seen out of his own dis- 

 trict, being perhaps less patient of change than the Changra or Chya- 

 pu, and for foreign exportation inferior to either of them, as well 

 owing to this inferior hardihood, as to the smaller quantity and coarser 

 quality of the fine sub-fleece. The mutton is good and the flesh of the 

 kids greatly and justly prized, being far superior to that of lambs of 

 any breed ; and the milk also, like that of the other goats, is greatly 

 and justly esteemed. The Sinals rut in autumn and procreate in 

 spring, the females gestating upwards of 5 months, as I am positively 

 assured, and as is true of the Ibexes, but not supposed to be so of the 

 CEgagri or of the tame goats.* 



Intestines 72 feet whereof the small are 53 and the great 19 feet. 

 Ccecum 12 inches long by 3 wide. Great gut near it 2 inches wide. 

 Another male. Intestines 78 feet, whereof small 59, and great 19 feet. 



* See and compare general Zoology II. p. 373 and English Regne Animal IV. pp. 



298 and 301. That points like this should be subject to doubt may show the ordinary 



observer how much he has it in his power to do by merely using his opportunities of 

 observation in India. 



