. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE irilD SHKEV UF \. ^â &3i2^ in small herds, headed by an old ram. Its skin is used by the mountaineers for making jackets. It breeds freely with the domestic species. The Ammon of Tibet has been known to as much as four feet and an inch at the shoulder, and has a most imposing apjjearance on account of the erect attitude in which it holds its head. Its horns attain a gi-eat size, being sometimes as much as four feet long and twenty-two inches in circumference at their bases, forming a single sweep of about four-fift
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE irilD SHKEV UF \. ^â &3i2^ in small herds, headed by an old ram. Its skin is used by the mountaineers for making jackets. It breeds freely with the domestic species. The Ammon of Tibet has been known to as much as four feet and an inch at the shoulder, and has a most imposing apjjearance on account of the erect attitude in which it holds its head. Its horns attain a gi-eat size, being sometimes as much as four feet long and twenty-two inches in circumference at their bases, forming a single sweep of about four-fifths of a cu'cle, their points being turned slightly outwards and ending bluntly. Its body colour is dark brown above, paler posteriorly and below. A mane surrounds its neck, white in the male, dark brown in the female. The tail measures only an inch in length. In the female the horns do not exceed twenty-two inches in lengtli, The BuRHEL, or Himalayan " blue wild Sheep," .stands three feet at the shoulder, and has horns which, commencing very close together on the forehead, a half cii'cle of two feet or so, and are very much outwards and backwards. In the female the horns do not exceed eight inches in length, and stand backward instead of diverging. The coarse fleece of winter is of an ashy-blue colour, which, in summer, is replaced by one that is much darker. The abdomen is white, and a black stripe runs along each side of the body, the front of the legs and the chest being also black. It has no beard. The American Argali, or Big-Horx, inhabits the range of the Rocky Mountains. Its height is three and a half feet at the shoulder. The horns form a complete circle, aiid are nearly thi-ee feet long in the male. They are said to come so far forward and downward that old rams find it impos- sible to feed on level ground. Its flesh is peculiarly well flavoured. The Wild Sheep of Barbary, known also as the Tragelaphus, is a large and handsome species, w
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