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of the head, the region above the eyes and round 

 the horns, as well as the fore part of the upper 

 side of the neck and the chin, being, however, 

 frequently blackish, while the under side of the 

 neck and the fore part of the breast are chestnut. 

 In other cases the ground-colour is white, upon 

 which are large irregular blotches of rufous brown. 



These sheep are kept in large numbers by the 

 natives of Lower Guinea and the Congo, whom 

 they supply with mutton, milk, and leather. They 

 are stated to have been carried at an early date to 

 the East Indies ; and when Captain Cook discovered 

 the island of Sabu, near New Guinea, the natives 

 were found to be in possession of sheep apparently 

 referable to this breed. 



A nearly allied type is the long-legged Nigerian 

 or Hausa sheep (pi. xvi. figs, i and 2), which appears 

 to have been unknown to Fitzinger, but was named 

 Ovis longipes carnapi by Dr. J. Miiller-Liebenweide ' 

 in 1896, from specimens then living in the Berlin 

 Zoological Gardens. Examples have since been 

 exhibited in the London and Dublin Gardens, the 

 former of which are now mounted in the British 

 Museum (Natural History). 



These sheep are typically characterised by the 

 great development of the throat-fringe of the rams, 

 the strongly pronounced Roman profile of the 

 entire head, the long, drooping ears, the presence 



• Illustrirte Zeitung, Berlin, 1896, p. 789. 



