OTHER VARIETIES OF SHEEP. 



large number of sheep having black faces much similar to 

 the flocks of the Scotch Highlands. In Piedmont a race of 

 sheep is kept for the milk. These sheep have hanging ears, 

 a high arched nose, long bare legs, and bodies with scant 





GIBRALTER AND EAST INDIAN SHEEP. 



fleeces. Darwin considered the pendant ears of these and 

 other similar races as a mark of long domestication, as it 

 prevails among the oldest established breeds in those coun- 

 tries in which no modern improvement has been made. The 

 illustration here given of a race of East Indian sheep which 

 is wholly black, and of a pair of sheep from Gibraltar in the 



THIBET SHEEP 



soutlnvest corner of Spain, shows the prevalence in these 

 of the drooping ears. The same is shown by the Thibit 

 sheep. 



A curiosity among sheep is the fat-tailed sheep of An- 

 gola, and some localities in Asia. The tail consists of a curi- 

 ous lump of fat on an elongated tail containing as many as 

 twenty vertabrae. The tail being considered as a delicacy, Is 



