506 account of the fat rumpedjheep, Au^. 14. 

 first of these positions is applicable likewise 

 to the ears of the Nomade goats ; and he remarks 

 that pendant ears, are common to domestic animals 

 in general. Here he finifhes the subject, except 

 mentioning in a note a breed of favourite ladle's cats 

 at Pekin in China, with pendant ears, and long loose 

 ■white hair, which are very bad hunters of mice in 

 general*. 



The learned academician then treats of a species 

 Q^Jklany apenduge, hanging from the necks of cer- 

 tain varieties of Iheep. 



There are amongst the Calmouk, but more com- 

 monly amongst the Kirguise fheep, some that have 

 two pieces of fkin, hanging from the under part of 

 the neck, like the Guinea iheep, (see plate second b, 

 third n,) which the Latins of the middle age called 

 NoNEOLA, and which the Rufsians call Sergy or 

 earrings. They resemble small cows udders or ra- 

 ther dugs, soft, about an inch and an half long, and 

 the breadth of a finger. Sometimes they are cove- 

 red with hiiir, and sometimes almost bare. Both sex- 

 es hav': tlicm ; and they are equally common to the 

 Kirguise he goats as to the fheep. Dr Pallas quotes 

 in a note an afsertion of Varon, and Columella ; 

 that two of these warts are a mark of a good he 

 goat ; and concliides his observations on this varie- 

 ty, by observing, that although the steatopyga breed 

 of fheep, surpafses all the others in size of carcase 



* Some cattle are found in the north of Scotland, having loose pen- 

 dulous horns, that adhere to the head by a cartilaginous apendage. 

 These horns are always of a small size. Cattle having by this 

 peculiarity are distinguiflied in Aberdecr.ihire by the local appella- 

 tive scuri'd, ii a scurr'd, ox or co-.v. Edit. 



