330 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



and a very short broad tail: the wool is white, and of good 

 quality. 



The last Broad-tailed breed of Northern and Middle 

 Asia, is policerate, with the ears pointing forward and 

 down, as in the former. The horns are four, five, and even 

 six ; the chafFron very convex ; wattles under the throat, and 

 very coarse wool. This breed forms the flocks of theKirguise, 

 and range along the banks of the Volga and Jennissai. 



The Steatopyga or Fat-rumped Sheep, are of another race, 

 principally reared in Southern Tartary. They have small or 

 no horns ; the chaffron not quite straight ; the mouth 

 small and pointed ; long pendulous ears, and the tail very 

 short and without fat ; some have wattles : the wool is of 

 good quality, but mixed colours, being white and roan or 

 light-brown in the Rams, and black and white in the Ewes. 



A variety of this, seemingly crossed with the Astracan, 

 forms a breed in the Mysore. It is hornless, with narrow 

 pendulous ears ; a very short clean tail, and the wool, very 

 fine, is particularly curled in small meshes, shaped like a 

 cork-screw ; the eyes are blue, and the colour pure white. 

 It is the most beautiful breed of India. The late Sir 

 Joseph Banks had a specimen which came from the gar- 

 dens of Tippoo Sultan, at Seringapatam. 



India and China are, besides, in possession of a breed 

 which seems allied to the African Adimain race. It is 

 rather high on the legs, with middle-sized curved horns, a 

 collar of hair reaching to the shoulders, which, together 

 with the head and legs, is deep rufous-brown. On the body 

 there is a short whitish and coarse wool, rather curling, 

 and the tail, more hairy, reaches below the houghs, and is 

 rufous. 



The Dolichura, or Circassian breed, has a very long tail, 

 trailing to the ground ; middle-sized horns, twisting spi- 

 rally from the side of the head, and very coarse wool;, 

 often black. 



