PECORA. THE SHEEP TRIBE. 69 



40. THE COMMON SHEEP. Horns compressed, and 

 lunated. Ovis aries. Linn. 



Not known in a wild state in any part of Great Britain or Ire- 

 land. 



Ovis cornibus compressis, lunatis. Ovis aries. Linn. 

 Syst. Nat. Gmel. i. p. 197. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, 

 gen. 27, sp. 1, p. 242. 



Ovis aries. Common Sheep. Turton, i. p. 117. 

 Kerr, p. 325. 



Ovis domestica. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 74. Rail. 

 Syn. quadr. p. 73. 



Aries, fyc. Klein, quad. disp. p. 13. 



Ovis. Gesner, p. 872, &c. Ruyscb, i. pa. 1, p. 38. 



La Brebis. Buff. Sonn. xxiii. p. 69, tab. 3, fig. 1, 2. 



La Brebis ordinaire, le Belier et leMouton. Cuv. Tab. 

 Element, p. 165. 



Common Sheep. Penn. Quadr. i. p. 74. Shaw's Gen. 

 Zool. ii. p. 385. Bing. Anim. Biog. 3d edit. ii. p. 65. 



Fleecy Sheep. Penn. Brit. ZooL i. p. 27. 



Sheep. Smellie's Buffon, iii. p. 462, tab. 14, 15. 



* Hornless. 



VAR. 1. New Leicester or Dishley Sheep. 



Face and legs white. Wool long and fine. Head long and nar- 

 row; ears soft and thin, standing backward. Back flat, and body 

 round and barrel-like. Pelt thin, and wool close set ; the staple about 

 six inches long. Bones slender. 



VAR. 



