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rather long legs and a simple tail, a tail which develops no 

 deposit of fat. The domestic breeds of sheep in Negroland, 

 outside the direct influence of the Caucasian races on the north 

 and east, belong chiefly to two types, which are hypothetically 

 derived from two species of sheep no longer existing in a wild 

 condition. One of these is styled Ovis jubata or the maned 

 sheep, and the other Ovis longipes or the long-legged 



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sheep, the last being really more riimarkable for its development 

 of a fat tail than for the proportionate length of its legs. 



There is an interesting variety of the Maned sheep styled 

 provisionally Ovis jubata pygm-ea, which has been recently 

 discovered in the Cameroons district. It is perhaps the smallest 

 breed of the domestic sheep, nearly if not quite hornless, and 

 remarkable for its coloration, which is light brown above, with 



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