SHEEP. 



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their chin is generally furnished with a long beard, and their forehead con- 

 cave. All these animals are robust, capricious, and of wandering habits. 



FIG. 434. GOAT. 



FIG. 435. SHEEP OF PALESTINE. 



The genus Sheep 

 (Oms] is composed of 

 animals whose horns are 

 directed at first back- 

 wards, and then incline 

 spirally more or less for- 

 wards. They have no 

 beard, and their forehead 

 is convex. They are so 

 well known as to require 

 no description. 



The Argali (Ovis Am- 

 111011] is generally considered 

 as the parent stock of all our 

 varieties of domestic sheep. 

 It is found in great num- 

 bers in Kamtschatka, and 

 on the highest mountains of 

 Barbary, of Corsica, and of 

 Greece' It is an agile, rc- 

 tive animal, with a very de- 

 licate sense of smell, and is 

 captured with difficulty; its 

 flesh is much esteemed. 

 The argalis prefer moun- 

 tainous district?, and livv 

 in dry and wild places, 



