BURHEL ibitecl), or BHARAL (E. Ind.). The blue wild sheep (Oris nahura) of Tibet, which resembles the aoudad in many particulars, and is a transition form between the goats and sheep, "both these species having no suborbital gland and no lachrymal fossa-, while their com paratively smooth and olive-colored horns show a decided approximation to those of the goats." Other similarities exist in the skull. This spe cies is 3 feet tall, and in winter its coarse fleece is dark ashy blue, but in summer it is much browner, with the ventral surfaces and the tail white, and the nose, throat, and front, and a line along the sides deep black. The horns of the rain are smooth, rounded, start "very close to t gether on the forehead, describe a half-circle of • feet or so, and are directed very much out ward and backward." Those of the ewe are only S inches long and simply curve backward. A sportsnmn, writing in The Field, of London, Jan uary 19, 189.5, of his experience with this animal,
says: "This sheep is very generally distributed over the mountains of the district which it in habits (never below 10,00(f feet). and one is constantly coming across tracks of flocks com prising from 2 or 3 to 40 or 50 individuals; but I have found it quite as hard to approach as any of the sheep—in fact, the circumstance that the old males are frequently in company with the rest of the Hoek all the year round, instead of separating from the females and the young rains, as is the case with most wild animals, renders it often very difficult to- make a successful stalk. The ewes are excessively wary, and one or two seem always to post themselves as sentinels while the rest of the flock are grazing or lying down.'' Consult books mentioned under GOAT and SHEEP; and see Plate of WILD GOATS AND SHEEP.