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stands from 3| to 4 feet at the shoulder and its horns 

 though not so long are frequently more massive — in 

 the finer of the two specimens in this collection the 

 girth is 1 8 inches which is 2 inches more than the Ovis 

 polii though the latter is 28 inches longer. Horns of 

 this species 48 inches long and 22 inches in circum- 

 ference have been recorded. 



The male is dark earthy brown above, lighter 

 below, rump lighter coloured — tail one inch — a white 

 ruff of long hairs on throat and chin, hair short, 

 brittle, and close set. The flesh is very good, tender 

 and well flavoured. 



A ram of this breed once wandered away from his 

 own locality and came into the Ovis vignei country 

 near Ladak where he joined a herd of the latter 

 driving out the Vignei rams by his greater size and 

 strength and appropriating the ewes, the result was ?i 

 hybrid which appears next in the list as 



Nos. 4 and 5— Ovis brookei— a cross between 



the Amm'jft father and Vignei mother. The Tibetans of 



