A shooting trip to Kamchatka . hich rolled over, while theother ran a few yards, and. stopping to look back forhis companion, received my second bullet, whichknocked him head over heels into the abyss. I foundthem to be both four-year-old rams, and though theheads were by no means trophies to be proud of, Ienjoyed the illusion of a success. One of theseanimals had entirely shed its winter coat, the otherstill carried thick brown patches of hair. I wasspecially struck by the shortness of their skulls andprominent eye-bones. Their summer coat is of a dullgrey hue, lighter on the legs, rump, and
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . hich rolled over, while theother ran a few yards, and. stopping to look back forhis companion, received my second bullet, whichknocked him head over heels into the abyss. I foundthem to be both four-year-old rams, and though theheads were by no means trophies to be proud of, Ienjoyed the illusion of a success. One of theseanimals had entirely shed its winter coat, the otherstill carried thick brown patches of hair. I wasspecially struck by the shortness of their skulls andprominent eye-bones. Their summer coat is of a dullgrey hue, lighter on the legs, rump, and under thebelly; their height at the shoulder is about fortyinches. An average ram weighs from 200 to 250 lbs.(six to seven poods) with(jut the gralloch. With WILD SHEEP 199 regard to their ways, it appears to me, as I have saidbefore, that durinor the two warm months in Kam-chatka they betake themselves to the highest groundand adopt the habits of wikl goats, living in thetightest rocks, unlike wild sheep in the other parts of. >
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