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the Aden district, and exhibits the peculiarly narrow, 

 horizontal ears, which look as though they had been 

 bitten in infancy. In some cases they are rudimen- 

 tary ; and their general appearance indicates the 

 affinity of this breed to the Levantine fat-tail (p. i8o). 

 The Aden representatives of the Bedouin sheep 

 seem to be generally either wholly white or wholly 

 black. 



The second photograph shows a ram and ewe of 

 a shaggy-woolled sheep from Basra, on the Persian 

 Gulf, which I take to be the Persian dumba, although 

 the hind-quarters are not shown. The ram has four 

 horns, of the general type of those of four-horned 

 Hebridean rams ; a feature not recorded in the text 

 in connection with fat-tailed sheep. 



R. LYDEKKER. 



Harpeden Lodge, Herts, 

 July 25, 1912. 



