l 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.

[Illustration: _Ovis cycloceros_.]

DESCRIPTION.--General colour rufous brown; face livid, side of mouth
and chin white; a long thick black beard mixed with white hairs from
throat to breast, reaching to the knees; legs below knees and feet
white; belly white, a blotch on the flanks; outside of legs and a
lateral line blackish. The horns of the male are sub-triangular, much
compressed laterally and posteriorly; in fact one may say concave
at the sides, that is, from the base of the horn to about one half;
transversely sulcated; curving outwards, and returning inward
towards the face; points convergent. The female is more uniform pale
brown, with whitish belly; no beard, and short straight horns.

SIZE.--About 5 feet in length, and 3 feet high; horns from 25 to 30
inches round the curve.[36] The marked distinctions between the two
species may be thus briefly summed up:--

_Ovis Vignei_.
Horn rather compressed laterally.
Rounded posteriorly.
Curving outward and backward.
Points divergent.
General colour, brownish-grey.
Beard short, of stiffish brown hairs.

_Ovis cycloceros_.
Horn much compressed laterally.
Much compressed posteriorly.
Curving outward and inward.
Points convergent.
General colour, rufous brown, with blotch on flanks and lateral
line blackish.
Beard profuse, reaching to knees, black intermixed with white
hairs.

[Footnote 36: See also Appendix C.]

Mr. Sclater, with reference to the two in his paper on the Pun