328 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



females always, without horns, handsomely made, the tail 

 lower than the houghs, ending in a sharp point, the end of 

 which is turned up, with a considerable expanse of fat be- 

 neath, rather thick, and not spread laterally ; the wool is 

 replaced by very soft and short white hair, with a fulvous 

 spot round each eye ; the same on the tips of the ears, the 

 knees, fetlocks, and houghs. It is a very delicate breed, 

 and almost useless if taken on board for sea-stock, wast- 

 ing and perishing in the first gale of wind. This breed is 

 one of a vast race, spreading, with various modifications, 

 over Egypt, Barbary, the Levant, India, China, and 

 Russia. Their name of Broad-tailed, common to the 

 whole race, is derived from one or two masses of fat ex- 

 tending, with some variation of shape, on each side of the 

 inferior part of the tail where it is invariably naked and 

 flesh-coloured. 



Mr. Pennant mentions a second breed of this race also 

 from South Africa, with large pendulous ears, a convex 

 face, small horns, and a long tail. There is a third, which 

 may be a cross with the Dutch. The chaffron is nearly 

 straight, the ears small, horizontal ; horns rather large, 

 stretching at right angles from the head. It is a large va- 

 riety; the head commonly black ; the ears white; the wool 

 on the forehead and body, mostly white and coarse ; the tail 

 broad, with two lobes of fat at the sides, reaching to the 

 houghs. 



The Barbary and Egyptian Broad-tailed breed is more 

 rufous on the neck, legs, tail, ears, and nose ; the wool is 

 coarse, the face not much arched, the ears pendulous, 

 and the horns retain the original curve of the Argalis on a 

 smaller scale. In this breed the tail is long, and at base 

 wider than the buttocks. 



The last African race we shall notice, is found in Barbary, 

 and even in Corsica. It is policerate, with pendulous ears ; 

 the tail not much widened, white in colour ; posterior 



