Animals at Khartoum 363 
The sheep about Khartoum are of the 
usual Sudan type, with Roman noses, long 
pendent ears, long tails, and hai imstead 
of wool; as a rule they are hornless, but 
there is a white ram in the gardens which 
has thin twisted horns. 
The photograph below depicts some goats 
of Khartoum. The males grow to a 
large size, and are very fine animals. The 
photograph shows how they differ from 
the sheep of the same neighbourhood by 
the absence of the “ Roman nose,” while, 
curiously, further north the goats assume 
this peculiarity and the sheep lose it. 
EDITORIAL NOTE. 
Our readers can scarcely fail to be greatly interested 
in Captain Stanley Flower’s notes on the domesticated 
animals of the Khartoum district; and it is a matter 
for regret that nothing is done at the present time 
in this country for exhibiting to the public living 
specimens of the more important of such breeds 
from all parts of the world. Formerly the London 
: Zoological Society took domesticated breeds under its 
f i Sg cognisance; but for some time this practice, with a 
Sepe L Us ENS few occasional exceptions, has been in abeyance. Of 
NUER HUMPED Ox. the reason for this we are unaware; it may be want 
. of space, it may be want of funds. There is, however, 
no doubt that an exhibition of this nature would be very popular and attractive; and we commend the matter to 
the attention both of the Zoological Society and of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
As an indication of how little is known with regard to domesticated animals, it may be mentioned that 
in all descriptions of domesticated breeds of sheep will be found the statement that in these animals the tail 
is always long. And yet so long ago as 1870 the late Edward Blyth, in ‘The Field,” pointed out that the 
Hunia, or fighting, rams of India haye naturally short and deer-like tails. 
While thanking Captain Flower for 
the loan of his photographs, we may 
take the opportunity of mentioning 
that another view of the Nuer Ox has 
previously appeared in this journal 
(Vol. I., p. 412). Here we may like- 
wise point out that we are indebted to 
Mr. C. N. Mavroyeni, of Smyrna, for 
the photographs in our last issue of 
the ‘‘Garden Spider and Nest” (p. 314), 
and of the ‘Scorpions Fighting” and 
“Scorpions at Rest: Male and Female” 
(pp. 315-316), as well as for the fine 
picture of ‘‘ Woodcocks at Rest” in 
the present number. 
CORRECTION. 
Tue Editor of Animan Lirz much re- 
grets that the issue for April should have 
contained a mis-statement respecting 
the death of “Jimmy,” the popular 
Chimpanzee at the Zoo. The Editor is. 
glad to say that “Jimmy” is not only 
alive to-day, but extremely well. The i SSR: cakes x SAS 
photograph was of another specimen. KHARTOUM GOATS. 
