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fat-tailed breed of sheep with a throat mane. I do not think, 

 therefore, much stress tor purposes of classification should be 

 laid on the feature of the mane. 



The maned sheep of the Central Niger regions grow to a 

 very large size, and the rams develop horns of considerable 

 size, which are often twisted or produced at right angles to the 

 head, like those of the four-horned Indian sheep. 



The fat-tailed sheep have a much greater tendency towards 

 hornlessness than is the case with the maned variety. More- 



335. EWE OF MANED SHEEP, LIBERIA 



over, their coloration is usually a uniform reddish brown, with- 

 out any markings on the limbs suggestive of resemblance to 

 the European mouflon, though of course these fat-tailed sheep 

 can also be pied black and white and brown and white. It is 

 needless to remark, perhaps, that both these forms in all their 

 variations are hairy sheep that never develop wool. 1 The woolly 

 breeds are entirely absent from Negroland outside the domain 

 of the Arab and the Berber. It is doubtful whether woolly 



1 I am informed that the indigenous fat-tailed sheep of Mossamedes (Southj 

 west Africa) sometimes develop wool in the cold season. 



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