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VOLUME XXXVI.— No. 9. 
NE^V^ YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1877. 
NEW SERIES— No. 368. 
THE "WILD SHEEP OF THIBET. — Drawn una Enriraml for the American AaricuHurisl. 
The head of the male 6heep shown in the upper 
part of the above engraving, will very forcibly re- 
call the head of our American " Big-horn," or 
Rocky Mountain Sheep. The species of sheep here 
illustrated, is a resident of Thibet, in Asia, and finds 
its home amid llic precipices and peaks of the 
Himalaya Mountains. Its habits, iu many re- 
spects, are not unlike those of our American wild 
sheep, and it affords an interesting instance of the 
natural adaptation of animal life to its surround- 
ings and necessities, which has, in these widely 
separated localities, lielpi'd to produce animals of 
such similar form and peculiarities. To those who 
are acquainted with the habits of our Roeky Moun- 
tain Sheep, the following description of its Asiatic 
congener will seem familiar. Tlii.-* species is found 
upon the great snowy range of the Himalayas, iu 
which the Ganges River finds its source, at very 
great elevations, from the highest limits of vegeta- 
tion, down to the upper boundaries of the forests. 
It jirefers the grassy slopes of these highest regions, 
and associates in flocks of four or five up to a hun- 
dred. It is a timid animal, ever ou the watch, one 
of the flock keeping on the look-out for danger, 
and giving a shrill whistle of alarm on the appear- 
ance of an enemy. When upon roeky ground, it 
exhibits great agility in Icapuig from crag to crag 
of the wildest and seemingly most inaccessible 
precipices, and thus furnishes attractive sport to 
those hunters who delight in more than usually peril- 
ous adventure. In winter when snowed in beneath 
some sheltering clilV, it endures great privation, 
and when released from conllnement, coming out 
wretchedly poor and emaciated, yet as agile as ever. 
The specimen shown in the foreground, is a female 
now livhig in the Loudon Zoological Gardens, Re- 
gent's Park, where it was received about a year ago. 
We are indebted to the " London Field " for the 
excellent and accurate original of our illuetratio^. 
