62 PECORA. THE ox TRIBE. 



VAR. 12. Norfolk Sheep. 



Horns sometimes enormously large. Face and legs black, or dark 

 grey. Wool short and fine. 



VAR. 13. Heath Sheep. 



Horns large and spiral. Face and legs black. Wool long, open, 

 coarse, and shagged. 



VAR. 14. Irish Sheep. 



Face and legs grey. Head long, with large flagging ears, and 

 sunk eyes. Legs long, thick, and crooked. Neck long, and set on 

 below the shoulders. Breast narrow, short, and hollow before and 

 behind the shoulder. The animals are of great size, flat-sided, with 

 narrow herring-backs; their hind quarters droop, and the tail is set 

 low. 



THE OX TRIBE. Horns hollow, smooth, bent out- 

 wards and forwards, so as generally to form the segment of 

 a circle: front-teeth in the lower jaw eight: no tusks. 

 Bos. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. gen. 32, i. p. 202. 



Horns unbrauched, permanent. W. B. 



41. THE COMMON Ox. Horns round, and curving out- 

 wards, loose dew-lap. Bos taurus domesticus. Linn. 



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

 or Ireland. 



Bos 



