| Inches. | |
| Length of skull | 11 |
| Smallest breadth between orbits | 4-5/8 |
| Length of horns, round curve | 33-1/2 |
| Circumference of horns | 13-3/8 |
[NO. 442. OVIS VIGNEI.]
Vigne's Wild Sheep.
NATIVE NAMES.—Sha or Shapoo.
HABITAT.—Little Thibet; Ladakh, from 12,000 to 14,000 feet.
DESCRIPTION.—General colour brownish-grey, beneath paler; belly white; a short beard of stiffish brown hair; the horns of the male are sub-triangular, rather compressed laterally and rounded posteriorly, deeply sulcated, curving outward and backward from the skull; points divergent. The female is beardless, with small horns. The male horns run from 25 to 35 inches, but larger have been recorded.
This sheep was for some time, and is still by some, confounded with the oorial (Ovis cycloceros), but there are distinct differences, as will be seen further on, when I sum up the evidence. It inhabits the elevated ranges of Ladakh, and is found in Baltistan, where it is called the oorin.
[NO. 443. OVIS CYCLOCEROS.]
The Punjab Wild Sheep (Jerdon's No. 236).
NATIVE NAMES.—Oorial or Ooria, in the Punjab; Koch or Kuch, in the Suleiman range.
HABITAT.—The Salt range of the Punjab; on the Suleiman range; the Hazarah hills; and the vicinity of Peshawar.