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WILD SHEEP.—DALMATIAN DOG 
WILD SHEEP.—DOMESTIC SHEEP.—LAMB AND DALMA- 
TIAN DOG, 
In the Society’s Museum* we have spe- 
cimens of the animal which, however dis- 
guised under various local and_ scientific 
names, by climate and situation, and by the 
coverings belonging to different seasons of 
the year, is the only Wild Sheep, or natural 
stock of all our domestic varieties of Sheep. 
It is a native of very cold countries, and of 
mountainous situations, and was formerly 
wild in Britain. In Summer, and in its 
natural state, its external coat differs little 
from that of the Deer, though it is provided 
with a wool beneath. In the dialect of some 
of the North American Indian natives, it is 
called Mi-attic, or the Ugly Deer, upon ac- 
* No. 348, Mountain Sheep; and No. 349, Argali 
Sheep. 
