170 MAMMALIA. 
a. Fat-rumped Sheep, Penn. Quad.; Shaw. 
O. ile Pallas, Spic. 55. 4. £ 1, 2; Schreb. ‘Songth. . 
$. 292 ) 
Ovis steatopyga orientalis, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. v. 31. 
343. t. 8; Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 233. 
O. Aries Kurgiesia, Gene, l. c. 
Tartarian Sheep, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 71. fig. 
b. Persian Sheep, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 677. 
Ovis A. ecaudatus, I. Geoff. Dict. Class. H. N. xi. 268. 
QO. Aries recurvicauda, Gene, Mem. Acad. Torino, xxxvii. 286. 
ro te 2. 
e Fat-tailed Sheep, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 678, 679. 
QO. A. macrocereus, Schreb. Saugth. t.295; Gene, Mem. Acad. 
Torino, xxxvil. 285. 
Mouton a grosse queue, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lith. t. 
d. The Aora fiyel, or Abyssinian Sheep. 
Ovis steatopygus, Des Mur. et Flor. Prevost, Voy. en Abys- 
sinie, vi. 36. t. 6. 1851. 
Hab. Abyssinia. r 
e. Bucharian Sheep, Ovis Bucharica, Pallas, Spic. xi. 78. 
Mouton d’Astrachan, Desm. 
Ovis Aries Astrachanica, Gene, Mem. Acad. Torino, XXXVil. 
Ovis platura media, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 1. 233. 
Hab. Bucharia, Caucasus, and Persia. 
The skin of the unborn lambs with grey curled hair is wad 
prized as a fur. 
f. Thibetan Sheep, O. Thibetanus, Fischer, Syn. 491. 
Cachemerisches und Thibetanisches Schaf, Walth. 
Tus Aessel, Thibetian. 
Hab. Thibet. 
g. Cape Sheep, Penn. Syn. t. 4. f. 2. : 
Ovis Capensis, Eraleb. 250; Thunb. Mem. Acad. Petersb. iii. 
318. 
Hab. Cape. 
h. Ovis Aries appendiculata, Gene, Mem. Acad. Tortsa, XXXVII. 
285. 
i. Sheep of Belkah, Buckingham, Trav. Arab. Tribes, 93. 
Body white. Head and neck black or brown. Covered with | 
thick wool. . Tail short, fat, broad, with a thin excrescence at 
the end like a pig-tail, about an inch long. 
Hab. Palestine; Plains of Belkah. 
