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the place named this hybrid Nyan-shapoo, Nyan being 

 the name of the former and Shapoo of the latter* It 

 was called Ovis brookei after Sir Victor Brooke from 

 a single specimen picked up in Ladak, but the question 

 of its being a distinct species was set at rest by the 

 testimony of Mons. H. Dauvergne who shot several 

 hybrids out of the herd and sent them to me for identifi- 

 cation. The old nyan ram was killed one winter by 

 wolves and then the stock began to degenerate as the 

 hybrids began to breed with the shapoo stock — the 

 gradual reversion to the vignei type is seen in the $ 

 bred specimen in this collection. The colour of the 

 hodgsoni has been described above—that of the vignei 

 is brown with a black-stripe down the throat, -which is 

 white. The half bred hrookei resembled the father 

 in the greyish tint and white throat— the J bred 

 brookei rererted to the brown coat of the mother with 

 a faint black stripe down the throat. 



No. 6 —Ovis Vignei.— Vignei sheep, or the 

 Shapoo. 



Habitat,— Utth Tibet— Ladak from 12,000 to 14,000 



