32 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



breeds of domesticated sheep are hybrids, although 

 his views are not shared by others. 



In Chile and Peru sheep and goat hybrids are 

 commonly believed to have been bred since com- 

 paratively early times ; such alleged hybrids being 

 known in Spanish as cabranos and in French as 

 chabins ; the term pellories being applied to the 

 second and third generations of these hybrids. 



An important and interesting review of the 

 opinions entertained by naturalists regarding these 

 chabins of the mountain pastures of the Chilian Cor- 

 dillera is included by Messrs. Neveu-Lemaire and 

 Grandidier in an article on the mammals of the 

 Cordilleran Plateau contributed to the Report of 

 the Mission Scientifique of G. de Cr^qui Montfort 

 and E. S. de la Grange, recently published in Paris. 

 Of this I have given the following summary in the 

 Field of June 15, 191 2, which by the editor's 

 courtesy I am enabled to reproduce : — 



" Of these animals living specimens are exhibited 

 at the present time in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, 

 Paris, and others in the Zoological Gardens at 

 Santiago de Chile. In the character of their fleece 

 these chabins conform more to the goat than to the 

 sheep type, and they certainly indicate a distinct 

 breed ; but whether this breed has been produced 

 by crossing ewes with he-goats is the question at 

 issue. 



" More than a century ago Buffon stated that 



