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Variety. —The Angora Goat. 
Plate XXXII. fig. 0. 
Is generally white; with buff-coloured ears, and yellow 
horns ; hair line and curled. 
Variety. —The Syrian Goat. 
j Plate XXXII. fig. 7. 
Hair long, brown ; horns short, black, bent downwards ; ears 
pendulous. From one to two feet long. 
Genus 8. — Ovis.— Linnaus. 
Generic Character. —Incisors no canines, grinders jHjj; t0_ 
tal 32. Horns common to both sexes, sometimes wanting in 
the female; thick, angular, wrinkled transversely, pale-colour¬ 
ed, turned laterally and spirally; ears small; legs slender; hair 
of two kinds ; tail more or less short; having two inguinal 
mammie. 
Ovis aries —The Sheep. 
Plate XXXIII. fig. I. 
Wool pale cream-coloured white; in general furnished with 
more wool than hair; horns frequently wanting; when they 
exist, less strong, arched backwards, and curved downwards at 
the tips. Subject to great variety, arising from climate and 
food. 
Variety. —The Wallachian Sheep. 
Plate XXXIII. fig. 3. 
Horns spiral, upright; fleece long, shaggy. This is the Strep- 
sicheros of the ancients. 
Variety. — The Tartarian Sheep. 
Plate XXXIII. fig. 2. 
Fleece roan-coloured; ears pendulous ; a large protuberance 
of fat in place of a tail. 
