10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OORIAL»
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The oorial (O. cycloceros), inhabits the Salt Range of the Punjab, the Suleiman
Range, the Hazara Hills and the neighborhood of Peshawur, from whence it
ranges through Sind and Beluchistan into eastern Persia, where its occurrence
has ...
John Hankins Wallace, 1891
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Wallace's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to ...
The oorial (O. cycloceros), inhabits the Salt Range of the Punjab, the Suleiman
Range, the Hazara Hills and the neighborhood of Peshawur, from whence it
ranges through Sind and Beluchistan into eastern Persia, where its occurrence
has ...
3
Large Game Shooting in the Thibet and the North West
The Oorial is found among low stony hills and ravines, which are generally more
or less covered with thin jungle, consisting principally of thorny bushes. During
the heat of the day the Oorial conceal themselves a good deal, retiring to the
most ...
Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch, 1869
4
Badminton library of sports and pastimes
Oorial, like stags, seem to affect particular spots at that season, and certain hills
which at other times of the year hold nothing but ewes and young ones will just
then invariably have big rams on them. Oorial ground has hitherto been
practically ...
5
Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India
Having lamed myself badly, I was unable to go out the next day, so I sent my
Shikari with dogs to try and recover the wounded Oorial : they saw them both, but
were unable to get near them ; the first one was eventually caught by a
woodcutter.
Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch, 1885
6
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
It was on similar ground, and close by here, that a good and keen .sportsman met
his death about a year subsequently to the date of my story. He had shot an
oorial, and was hurrying towards the fallen beast, when he put his foot on a
boulder ...
7
Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
He has done comparatively little hill shooting, but can produce a few good
trophies of ibex, markhor and oorial. His experience with dangerous game
having been so wide, the reader may be somewhat startled to learn that the
author considers ...
8
The Encyclopaedia of Sport: Leo-Sanb
OORIAL — The oorial or shapoo (Ovis vignei) is a wild sheep, covered with hair
instead of wool ; about nine hands high, reddish- brown in colour, with white
markings on the lower part of the body and legs. The old bucks are darker in
colour, ...
Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, 1900
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The Encyclopaedia of Sport
They should be pressed at top speed at first. Shields are made from the skin.
Natives look on the nilgai as an ox, and those to whom the cow is sacred object
to their being killed. J. D. INVERARITY. VOL. II. OORIAL—The oorial or shapoo (
Ow'; ...
Henry Charles Howard Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, 1898
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Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots: Being the Narrative of a ...
WILL THE OORIAL BECOME EXTINCT 1 167 storm suddenly frozen hard, and
coloured red, it would give a slight idea of its appearance. We encamped on the
edge of the table-land. About four miles off is a ridge of low hills, and the terrain ...
Nora Beatrice Blyth Gardner (Hon. Mrs.), 1895
