MEDIUM-TAILED CONTINENTAL BREEDS 135 



and they are likewise spread over Bohemia, 

 Moravia, Silesia, the greater part of Hungary, as 

 well as Galicia, Poland, and Lithuania (Grodno). 

 As a rule, the rams are horned and the ewes horn- 

 less ; the horns of the former being of the general 

 mouflon-type. Very frequently the whole colour 

 is dirty white, but the face may be reddish. These 

 sheep are divided by Dr. Fitzinger^ into a number 

 of strains or breeds, some, such as the typical 

 German and the straight-woolled German sheep, 

 being the result of local conditions and selection, 

 while others are due to the crossing of these two 

 with various breeds. Among the hybrid types are 

 the Hanoverian, Pomeranian, Franconian, and 

 Mecklenburg breeds, as well as some of those of 

 Hungary. To discuss these, especially without the 

 aid of illustrations, would, however, be not only 

 practically useless, but likewise wearisome. 



Still more unprofitable would it be to refer in 

 detail to breeds like the Friesian (nearly related to 

 the Durham or the old Leicester), which have been 

 introduced into various continental countries from 

 England, and there modified into strains differing 

 but slightly from the parent stock. 



Mention may, however, be conveniently made 

 in this place of certain Spanish breeds, other than 

 the merino and the dun-faced, which have been 

 already described. For a full account of these breeds 



> Op. cit., p. 397. 



