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SHEEP AND GOATS 



to the Thibetan plateau are 0. liodgsoni and 0. nahura. Corsica 

 has the Mouflon, 0. rnnsiinon ; and the IWbary Sheep or Ami, 

 0. tragelarplitis, is found only in J^orthern Africa. Ovis Imrrhel 

 and 0. Manfordi are Indian forms. 



Ovis nahura is chiefly responsible for the impossibility of 

 strictly separating the Sheep and CJoats. It has no suborbital 

 glands or lachrymal fossae, which are as a rule present in the 



Fig. 174. — Thar. Capra jcmlaica. x ji,. {Yrom Ncdnre.) 



Sheep and absent from the Goats. On the other hand inter- 

 digital glands are present, which is the case with Sheep. Its 

 habits, too, are a l:)lending of those of the Sheep and the Goat. 

 It lives largely on undulating ground like Sheep, and frequently 

 lies down during the day on its feeding ground. On the other 

 hand it is, like the Goats, a splendid climber. 



The Goats, genus Capra, differ from the Sheep in their slighter 

 build and in the fact that the horns are not spirally curved, but 

 arched over the back. There is also the characteristic beard, 



