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THE STORY OF THE WILD SHEEP . 
found apart in the summer, but frequently associating together at all seasons. 
The .herds keepdro high, open ground above forest, and never even enter 
bush. They feed and rest alternately during the day. Owing to their color 
it is peculiarly difficult to make them out when they are lying down amongst 
stones. It appears that these animals are never found below an elevation 
of ten thousand feet above the sea-level, while in summer they range up 
to fourteen thousand and sixteen thousand feet. Bharal are by no means 
difficult of approach in districts where they have not been much disturbed, 
“big horns” of the rocky mountains. 
and on one occasion in Ladak I came suddenly upon a flock of five rams 
lying asleep in an unfrequented path. 
The Barbary, or maned sheep, which is the only wild representative of 
the group met with in Africa, while agreeing with the bharal in the general 
character of its horns and skull, is distinguished by the great mass of long 
hair clothing the throat, chest, and fore-limbs, and likewise by the great 
length of the thickly-haired tail, which reaches slightly below the hocks. 
