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THE 00RIAL, SHA, OR SHAPO. 
Ovis vignei or Ovis cycloceros. Native names : Gach ("male), Mish (female), 
P. ; , Shapo (male), Shamo (female), Ladak ; Dumbh-i-Koh i Afghan; Urin , 
Astor; Roch , Baluch. and Sind; (Jovial, Punjab. 
Habitat.— Very wide. It is found in Ladak, in Northern Tibet, Astor and 
Gilgit, Afghanistan, the Punjab Salt Range, along both banks of the Indus, 
from Attock downwards as far as Makhad, and in Sind down to sea-level. 
Period of gestation .—Seven months. The young are produced in early sum¬ 
mer, one or two being born. The Shapo breeds freely with tame sheep. 
Description. —Coarse, close, short hair, short tail. Adult rams have a ruff of 
long hair from behind the chin down to the chest. The horns, triangular in 
section are coarsely wrinkled, arise close together, diverge considerably and are 
curved nearly in a circle. Female horns are nearly straight. In summer this 
sheep is fawn above, in winter light greyish brown ; lower parts, limbs, buttock 
and tail whitish ; ruff black with an admixture of white hairs. In old animals 
the muzzle is white. It inhabits open valleys and grassy undulating ground cut 
up by ravines. The herds vary from three or four to twenty or thirty ; they are 
wary and active and are good climbers ; they bleat, but their alarm cry is a 
shrill whistle. 
