White. — On Coloured Shcejy. 211 



markets, being too short in the staple for combing. Secondly, 

 the vrool known as Pschawa Touches, and Touchi\-i : this 

 description is cleaner than the other kinds, and only com- 

 prises 5 per cent, of black and gi'ey ; the second clip i's more 

 sought after, as being cleaner. Thirdly, Tarakamas -wool, 

 which is produced in the Taitai- districts, and vields 30 jier 

 cent, of white, the rest being black and coarse. This descrip- 

 tion is mostly bought for America, though a considerable 

 portion of the second chp is retained in the couuti-y for makiuf^ 

 carpets. Fourthly, the intermediary description, more or less 

 white, and comprising less grey than the Tariikamas. Besides 

 those named ai-e the Ehsabethpol, wliich yields about 40 per 

 cent, white ; and the Chakcheran, giving 60 per cent, white.'' 



In the Xew South Wales Court, at the Dunedin and South 

 Seas Exhibition, held this year, samples of Bagdad brown 

 wool were on exhibit with other wools. 



'• One of the most stiiking breeds in the show "Paris Exlti- 

 bition] was the Solognot, a small, hght, and rather leggy sheep, 

 with a long thin tail, and face and legs of a rich red. A pen 

 of Swiss two-shear ewes, jet-black all over, attract attention, 

 mainly bv the elongation of the neck and legs." — Live-stock 

 Journal, 19ih July, ''1SS9. 



A Fivc-/iorned Bam. — "The most interesting thing about the 

 premises of the London Docks on a Wednesday lately was a 

 remarkable rc\m hidden away in a corner on the deck of a ship. 

 "WTiat was strange about the ram was liis hom-s. He had five 

 of them — two gracefully curhng fi'om the points which honis 

 asually select as most convenient, immediately below them 

 were two more, and below these one formed a kind of rang 

 which led up to the rest. The ram looked proud of these 

 horns. He held his head aloft, and seemed anxious to have 

 them iluiy noticed. He was as pla>"ful as a kitten, and, 

 according to one of the sailors in chai-ge, takes to rum as 

 readily and as naturally as any one of the crew. He then 

 displays a number of antics altogether out of keeping with 

 his general decorum. He is twelve months old, and comes 

 from the Persian Gulf ; he is remarkably small, with wool 

 of exceedingly dirty yellow, and liis legs are brown."* — 

 XeirsjiajJer ciittira. 



St. Kilda Sheej). — •' In the report of the sheep classes at 

 Windsor, in the new number of the Jom-nal of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, page 699, is an account by Lord 

 Moreton of the St. Kilda foiu--horned sheep. He writes : 

 * They are said to be descendants of sheep which got ashore 

 from an Armada ship wrecked on the island. Although my 

 sheep have been bred for several generations in England, 

 they ai-e still iucUned to be wild. I find the mutton 

 excellent, though the joints are small. I get from 3Ib. to 



