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in miniature those of the wild Kulja argali 

 (described in a later chapter), which may have 

 been the original ancestral type. 



A skull and horns from Sze-chuan, western 

 China, presented to the Museum by Mr. J. W. 

 Brooke, apparently indicate a nearly allied breed 

 of sheep. 



The complete skin and horns of a ram, 

 collected by Mr. Carruthers at Kulja, in the 

 eastern Tian Shan, and presented by Mr. Elwes 

 to the British Museum, undoubtedly represents 

 another member of the Hunia group, having the 

 characteristically short tail. It is a large brown- 

 fleeced sheep, in which the horns are of a heavier 

 type than in the Hunia, with an elevated band on 

 the inner front angle, and finer transverse wrinkles. 

 Each horn forms only one complete turn of a 

 spiral. In a second skull, belonging to the same 

 breed and collected at the same place, the horns 

 measure 25 inches in length and 8 J in girth, with 

 a tip-to-tip interval of 19J inches. 



In this place may be noticed the so-called 

 earless Shanghai sheep, of which a small flock 

 was exhibited in the gardens of the Zoological 

 Society of London in the year 1857.^ Both 

 sexes are hornless and practically devoid of external 



' See A. D. Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 104, pi. lii. 

 It is there stated that ears are lacking, but Darwin {Animals and 

 Plants under Domestication, 2nd ed., vol. i. p. loi) refers to them as 

 being truncated and rudimentary. 



