1. The purpose of the present study is to consider the behavior of quasimeromorphic mappings about an essential isolated singularity or, by contraposition, to seek conditions under which such maps possess a limit at a singular point. In Section 2 we will establish two Picard-type theorems for quasiregular mappings both of which generalize a recent result of Vuorinen [1a]. Furthermore, we will show that isolated singularities are removable for normal quasiregular mappings. Here normality means uniform continuity with respect to the quasihyperbolic metric. Section 3 is devoted to the value distribution of normal quasimeromorphic mappings. In Section 4 we will discuss the oscillation of quasimeromorphic mappings in the neighborhood of an essential singularity. This part of the work is related to Lehto's result concerning the growth of the spherical derivative of meromorphic functions near an isolated singularity [5].I wish to thank Matti Vuorinen for his useful comments.2. our notation and terminology will be mainly the same as in vuorinen's book [13], Accordingly, B"(*,r) denotes the ball centered at c € R" with rad.ius r while s"-'(r,r) is the sphere with the same center a^nd radius. For brevity, B"(r): B"(0,r), B": B"(1), sn-l(r) : ,5"-r(0,r), ,s'-1 : ,9"-,(1). The euclidean distance in R" is denoted by d(.,.), whereas g(.,.) refers to the chordal distance in R", the one-point compactificaiion of R", *rri"r, as usual is identified with the Riemann sphere S"('r"n*r, |) (see [18, p. a] Picard's theorem due to Rickman [11]: For every integer n ) 2 and each K ) 1 there exists a positive integer p : p(n,I() such that if .f : R" ---+ R"\{o1 ,. . . ,ap_t} is -K-quasiregular and a1, ... rdp-t are distinct points in R', then / is constant.