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whorl of long hair, in advance of which the whole 

 neck is clothed with long hair ; this forming in the 

 rams a distinct mane, which falls well below the 

 chest. As a rule, the head, inclusive of the ears, 

 the whole neck, and the fore-part of the mane are 

 black, while the rest of the body is white ; but the 

 black areas are not infrequently replaced by brown 

 or rufous. 



In this place reference may be made to a small 

 brown ram exhibited in the British Museum 

 (pi. xvii. fig. i), and reputed to come from 

 Abyssinia, which apparently represents another 

 hybrid between the long-legged and the maned 

 sheep. It has outwardly directed horns of the 

 type of those of the long-legged group, but is much 

 inferior in point of size and shorter in the legs than 

 any of the members of the latter, while it shows a 

 distinct mane on the neck ; the whole coat being 

 relatively long and shaggy. The shortness of the 

 tail in this particular specimen is perhaps due in 

 part to imperfection, although the relative length 

 is not much greater in a dwarf sheep from the 

 Cameruns referred to below. 



To a breed of sheep from the Sudan Linnaeus 

 gave the name of Ovis aries africana, a designation 

 which was unjustifiably changed by Fitzinger^ to 

 Ovis jubata, in allusion to the heavy mane developed 

 on the neck of old rams. It was subsequently con- 



' op. cit., p. 224. 



