170 MAMMALIA. 



a. Fat-rumped Sheep, Penn. Quad. ; Shaw. 



O. Steatopyga, Pallas, Spic. 55. t. 4. f. 1, 2; Schreb. Saugth. 



t. 292. 

 Ovis steatopyga orientalis, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. v. 3L 



343. t. 8 ; Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 233. 

 O. Aries Kurgiesia, Gene, I. c. 

 Tartarian Sheep, Bewick, Hist. Quad. 71. fig. 



b. Persian Sheep, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 677. 



Ovis A. ecaudatus, I. Geoff. Diet. Class. H. N. xi. 268. 

 O. Aries recurvicauda, Gene, Mem. Acad. Torino, xxxvii. 286. 

 t. 1 & 2. 



c Fat-tailed Sheep, Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 6/8, 679. 

 O. A. macrocercus, Schreb. Saugth. t. 295 ; Gene, Mem. Acad, 



Torino, xxxvji. 285. 

 Mouton a grosse queue, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lith. t. 



d. The Aora fiyel, or Abyssinian Sheep. 



Ovis steatopygus, Des Mur. et Flor. Prevost, Voy. en Abys- 



sinie, vi. 36. t. 6. 1851. 

 Hob. Abyssinia. 



e. Bucharian Sheep, Ovis Bucharica, Pallas, Spic. xi. 78. 

 Mouton d'Astrachan, Desm. 



Ovis Aries Astrachanica, Gene, Mem. Acad. Torino, xxxvii. 

 Ovis platura media, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 233. 

 Hob. Bucharia, Caucasus, and Persia. 



The skin of the unborn lambs with grey curled hair is much 

 prized as a fur. 



/. Thibetan Sheep, O. Thibetanus, Fischer, Syn. 491. 

 Cachemerisches und Thibetanisches Schaf, Walth. 

 Tus Aessel, Thibetian. 

 Hab. Thibet. 



g. Cape Sheep, Penn. Syn. t. 4. f. 2. 



Ovis Capensis, Erxleb. 250; Thunb. Mem. Acad. Petersb. iii. 



318. 

 Hab. Cape. 



h. Ovis Aries appendiculata, Gene, Mem. Acad. Torino, xxxvii. 



285. 



i. Sheep of Belkah, Buckingham, Trav. Arab. Tribes, 93. 



Body white. Head and neck black or brown. Covered with 

 thick wool. Tail short, fat, broad, with a thin excrescence at. 

 the end like a pig-tail, about an inch long. 

 Hab. Palestine ; Plains of Belkah. 



