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of fur intended to be produced. Black is also in the 

 most esteem.* 



The most beautiful Indian breed is said to be from 

 Mysore, hornless, with pendulous ears, short tail, and 

 thp wool very fine, curled in small meshes, and 

 twisted like a cork skrew. 



Having reviewed the Sheep, Major Smith finds 

 his way to the Bovine races, by means of a series of 

 large and powerful animals, uniting in some degree 

 the features of both, but although hitherto generally 

 referred to the Antelopes, from the outward ap- 

 pearance of their horns, yet, perhaps, their real 

 structure approaches nearer to the oxen then either 

 to the Antelopes, or the Sheep and Goats. Mr 

 Swainson, in his late arrangement, places the Da- 

 inalis of Smith, as the last of the Goat, which 

 he includes in his family Antelopidce, while he 

 makes Catoblephas or the Gnu at the commence- 

 ment of the Bovidce or the typical form of the Ru- 

 minants. 



They are all rather large animals. The inter- 

 scapular or first vertebrae of the back are gene- 

 ~ally elevated above the rest of the spine ; and 

 Major Smith has observed a curious structure in 

 the horns, They are " placed on or even above 

 the ridge of the frontals, having within the osse- 

 * Pallas 's History of Russian Sheep. 



