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ganyika district, and so on to Angola, Guinea, 

 Senegambia, and even Morocco. 



An excellent figure of a couple of adult rams of 

 the Dinka breed of these sheep is given by Dr. G. 

 Schweinfurth,^ who writes as follows : — 



" The distinctive mark of these Dinka sheep 

 consists in the mane-like covering of the withers, 

 chest, and neck — the rest of the body being short- 

 haired — and the thin tail. This mantle of hair 

 sometimes gives to the Dinka sheep the appearance 

 of a miniature buffalo, a resemblance intensified by 

 the plumpness of the body and the comparative 

 shortness of the limbs. For the most part these 

 sheep are pure white, more rarely blotched with 

 brown or black, and in some cases wholly reddish 

 brown. . . . Like the shepherds of South Africa, 

 the Dinkas are in the habit of splitting the newly 

 sprouting horns of these sheep in order to make 

 them grow double in the adult." 



The British Museum (Natural History) possesses 

 one of these reddish brown rams of the Guinea race 

 of the maned sheep, the only variation in the colour 

 being that the face is paler. It was presented by 

 the Zoological Society in 1850. 



In the same collection is a small black ram 

 with a white patch on the nape of the neck, and 

 a heavy black mantle on the fore-quarters, which 

 was obtained at Luebo, on the Lulua River, to 



' Im Ilersen von Afrika, 1874, vol. i. p. 174, Leipzig and London. 



