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founded with the long-legged group, especially with 

 the Guinea breed, to which it is evidently nearly 

 related, although, as was pointed out by Fitzinger, 

 considerably inferior in size, and also much lower 

 in build, while it also has horns of the Ammon type. 

 By an apparent misunderstanding of the account of 

 this breed given by Fitzinger, Mr. Gaillard ' has 

 stated that Fitzinger himself regarded this sheep as 

 the product of a cross between ithe long-legged and 

 the fat-rumped breeds. 



The maned sheep is described by Fitzinger as 

 being of medium size and not much bigger than 

 the ordinary European breeds. In the moderately 

 long head the swollen forehead is separated by a 

 depression from the somewhat convex chaffron, 

 the upper and lower jaws are of nearly equal length, 

 and the ears, which are less than half the length 

 of the head, are bent outwards and downwards. 

 The rams alone carry horns, which are rather 

 short, triangular, thick at the bases, and then 

 sharply narrowing to the blunted tips, with oblique 

 ridges across the greater part of the front surface. 

 From their widely sundered bases they curve, 

 without rising above the level of the head, laterally 

 to form a gentle arch from back to front, so that 

 their tips incline at first inwards and then slightly 

 outwards. 



From the lower part of the throat depends a 



1 " Le Belier de Mendes," p. 34- 



