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THE GREAT PAMTR SHEEP. 
Oris Poli. Native names : Kuchkar (male), Mesh (female), Wakhan. 
Habitat .— This sheep is found in Indian limits only in Hunza, north of 
Gilgit, and the Tagdumbash. 
Period of gestation. —Unknown. 
Description - Closely allied to the Nyan, the difference being chiefly in 
the horns and colour. Its enormous horns are less in girth than in the Nyan, 
but much longer, each forming a spiral of considerably more than a circle. 
The female horns are wretchedly small. Its habits and breeding season are the 
same as those of the Nyan. 
Measurements .—Adult males 44 ins. at shoulder, length from horns to tip 
of tail, 5 ft. 2 ins., tail about 4 ins., horns 48 ins., good horns measure from 50 
to 60 round the curve and about 15 ins. in basal girth. 
Decord Heads .—Very few Indian sportsmen have shot this sheep ; many 
of the heads recorded were picked up on the Pamir I believe. “Smoothbore,” 
the late Mr. II. R. P. Carter, writing in an Indian journal on the 13th November 
1891, gave Lord Roberts 1 specimen as the record—length 75 ins., girth 16 ins., 
tip to tip 54§- ins. Sterndale mentions a head of 73 ins. by 17 ins. and tip to 
tip 48 ins. and a fine head got in Hunza by Col. J. Biddulph and presented to 
