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horns ; and the general colours of the fur consisting in 

 large clouds of pale rufous-brown upon white. 



The Muana Conquo, Coguo, and Zomba, Angola breeds, 

 are better proportioned. The form of the chaffron is as in 

 the breeds of Europe ; the horns small ; in the first and 

 third turning from the head ; in the Coquo forming a com- 

 mencement of the usual curve. This species has also more 

 and finer wool, and, in general, bears a black spot round 

 the eyes ; the others are more hairy : all have the tail very 

 long, the ears only horizontal, and their general colour is 

 white, with broad spots of rufous. 



The Zunu or Goitered breed, is a fourth of the Angola 

 race, low on the legs, with close hair, pendulous ears, and 

 tail reaching to the fetlocks. It is very delicate, and has 

 the singular peculiarity of a mass of fat rising in the form 

 of a high collar behind the horns, and resting upon the oc- 

 ciput ; the horns are very short, slender, turned inwards 

 towards the forehead : upon the larynx another mass of fat 

 hangs like a goitre under the throat ; the forehead is so 

 prominent that a deep depression occurs between the eyes ; 

 the ears, neck, body, and superior part of the tail, are pale 

 brown ; the head, goitre, throat, legs, belly, and inferior 

 half of the tail, white*. 



At the Cape of Good Hope several breeds are found, the 

 Dutch imported from Holland, the Indian from Ceylon, and 

 the Indigenous, or Hottentot Broad-tailed Sheep. Besides 

 these, other intermediate sorts have arisen by crossing be- 

 tween them ; but the Broad-tailed, or Hottentot Sheep, is 

 the true South African, and now found also in Madras 

 and Bengal. 



It is beneath the ordinary size. The males generally, the 



* There are excellent figures of these breeds in the celebrated 

 collection of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the copies of which 

 were immediately recognised by several of our late voyagers on 

 the West Coast of Africa. 



