MAMMALIA—SHEEP. old 
countries, as Madagascar and India, they are clothed with hair. The 
superabundance of fat, which in our sheep fixes upon the reins, in these 
sheep descends under the vertebre of the tail; the other parts of the body 
are less charged with it than in our fat sheep. This variety is to be 
attributed to the climate, the food, and the care of mankind ; for these 
broad, or long tailed sheep, are tame, like those of our country, and they 
even demand much more care and management. This breed is much more 
dispersed than ours; they are commonly met with in Tartary, Thibet, Tur- 
key, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Barbary, Ethiopia, and Madagascar ; and even as 
far as the Cape of Good Hope. In Thibet, their fleeces, which are very 
fine, are manufactured into shawls. 
In the islands of the Archipelago, and chiefly in the island of Candia, 
there is a breed of sheep, of which Belon has given the figure and descrip- 
tion, under the name of strepsiceros. This sheep is of the make of our 
common sheep. It is like that, clothed with wool; and only differs from it 
by the horns, which are larger and rise upwards, but are twisted into 
spirals. 'The distance between the horns of the ewe enlarges towards their 

tops; those of the ram are parallel. This animal, which is commonly 
salled the Wallachian sheep, is frequent in Austria and Hungary, where its 
1ame is zackl. 
In the hottest countries of Africa and India, there is a breed of large 
sheep, which has rough hair, short horns, hanging ears, and a kind of tuft 
under the tail. Leo Africanus, and Marmol, call it adamain ; and it is 
known to the naturalists by the name of the Senegal ram, the Guinea ram, 
and the Angola sheep, &c. He is tame, like ours; and, like him, subject 
to variety. These, though different in themselves by particular characters, 
resemble each other so much in other respects, that we can scarcely doubt 
that they are of the same kind. 
A specimea of the male African sheep, is now in the Tower menagerie, to 
which it was presented by Lord Liverpool. In temper, it is extremely 
mild; but it is an uncouth looking creature. It is high on the legs, narrow 
in the loins, and its coat is rough and shaggy. Its horns are remarkably 
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