362 THE SHEEP OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Messrs. Eoberts, Taaffe, Cotton, Flanagan, and Flynn may be 

 mentioned as leading breeders of improved Eoscommon sheep 

 in the county which gives its name to the breed. Mr. Eichard 

 Coffey has also a very superior flock in Westmeath, and has 

 been very successful as an exhibitor; while Capt. J. Blood 

 Smyth, Fedamore, county of Limerick, has done much to 

 establish the character of the improved Eoscommon breed. 

 Capt. Smyth has been for several years a leading exhibitor, and 

 it is to his flock we are indebted for our illustration of the 

 breed. 



The ram Prince Arthur was the first-prize ram in his class at 

 the Ball's Bridge Show of the Eoyal Agricultural Society in 

 1871, and the ewe in the engraving was one of Capt. Smyth's 

 first-prize pen at the same show. 



