126^ account of domestic JJ^eep. J^'h 3t« 



On the different varieties of Sheep in a wild and do- 

 mestic STATE, RIIARED IN THE RuSSIAN EmpiRE, AND BY 

 THE PASTORAL NATIONS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF EuROPE TO 



THOSE OF China. 



Continued from p. pt. 

 Domestic fjeep, 



XlAvrNG given an account of the argali or wild 

 Ihecp, I fliall now enter upon Dr Pallas's remarks, 

 made during his wide extended travels in the Ruf- 

 slan empire, more particularly in Seberia, ai.d a- 

 mongst the pastoral nations of great Tartarj, rela- 

 tive to the domestic Iheep. 



The doctor found what he regards as only one 

 specie; of (heep ii the whole range of his journey, 

 subdivided into four varieties, and distingulfhed by 

 their tails, the form of their heads, their ears, and 

 fleece. These four varieties are the long tailed, the 

 fhort tailed, the fat tailed, and a mixed breed of fheep 

 with longifli tails, fat at the base, with a species 

 of lean bony apendage tapering to a point. So 

 that this able zoologist condemns as unfounded and 

 fanciful, the erroneous idea of making specific diffe- 

 rences of the accidental varieties which education or 

 mode of life, climate, food, and crofsing the breed, 

 have produced mfjeep, as in pigeons, dogs, and o- 

 ther domestic animals ; and in conformity to this o- 

 pinion he considers the ovis laticaudata, lungicauda, 

 pilosa^ Africana, Cuinecnsisj strepsiceros, Hungarian 



