70 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE DUNKEY, OR DWARF SHEEP. 



ANOTHER variety of the Sheep kind; deserves 

 to be noticed for the singular and grotesque forma- 

 tion of its features. The wool growing round its 

 head, forms a kind of hood or ruff, before which 

 stand its short erect ears : the uncommon protru- 

 sion of its under jaw considerably before the upper, 

 by which the fore teeth are left exposed, and the 

 shortness of the nose, which lies under its high- 

 projecting forehead, altogether give it the appear- 

 ance of deformity, and make a striking contrast to 

 most animals of the Sheep kind. A Ram, from 

 which the drawing was made, came from abroad, 

 with two Ewes, as a present to a gentleman in the 

 county of Northumberland. They are very small, 

 and have no horns. In Lincolnshire there is a 

 small kind, mentioned by Mr. Culley under the 

 name of Dunkies, which we suppose to be the same 

 with this. 



