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COMMON lUiiTlSn ANIMALS 



remains in England to Lord Avebury and Charles 

 Kingsley, who found them at Maidenhead in 1875. 



Though there are many and varied breeds of 

 wild sheep in the British Isles, they are not nativ^e 

 races, and the origin of the domesticated breeds of 

 sireep is even more obscure than that of our 



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Fig. 51. — Romney Marsh Sheep and Lambs. (Photo, from 

 life.) 



domesticated oxen. The bones of a wild sheep 

 {Oris savini) are found in the Norfolk Forest bed, 

 but there is no knowledge of any domesticated 

 sheep until the Neolithic period, and then Ovis 

 savini was extinct. The remains of sheep and 

 goats associated with primitive man are dissimihir in 



