238 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



ears and the absence of tags on the throat, as 

 well as by the croup being rather higher than the 

 withers. The ground-colour of the body is white, 

 upon which are a few large irregular reddish brown 

 spots, whereas the mane is wholly rufous. Although 

 its headquarters appears to be the Tafilat district, 

 this breed is by no means confined to Morocco, but 

 occurs so" far south as Angola, where it is known 

 to the natives by the name of zomba. 



A nearly, if not fully, adult ram from the 

 Cameruns exhibited in the British Museum (Natural 

 History) seems to indicate a pigmy and perhaps 

 hybrid form of the maned sheep, as it stands only 

 19 inches at the withers. The short and thick 

 horns are less than a couple of inches in length. 

 The coarse hair on the body is about an inch long, 

 but that on the neck and throat is elongated into 

 a short mane. Over the greater part of the body 

 the colour of the coat is bright chestnut-red, but 

 the short ears, the greater portion of the face, the 

 throat-ruff, the buttocks, the under-parts, and much 

 of the legs are black. The short, thinly haired tail 

 reaches about half-way to the hocks. The great 

 prevalence of black in this breed is foreshadowed 

 in some individuals of the Senegambian maned 

 sheep, as described above ; this blackness of the 

 under-parts being a feature precisely the reverse 

 of the condition existing in the wild mouflon and 

 urial, in which the under-parts are white. 



