SOME PECULIAR AFRICAN BREEDS 239 



The breed now to be described differs from all 

 the foregoing African types in carrying a fleece of 

 curly wool, although resembling many of the members 

 of the long-legged group in its pied colouring, and 

 especially in the general presence of a white blaze 

 down the middle of the face, accompanied by black 

 patches round the eyes, and also in the blackness of 

 the horns. Although there is evidence that some 

 of these piebald and generally four-horned sheep 

 were 'kept in England so long ago as 1850 (this 

 being exemplified by a head presented to the 

 British Museum in 1901 by the Rev. H. G. Morse), 

 it is very remarkable that no mention is made of 

 them by Dr. Fitzinger in his articles on the breeds 

 of domesticated sheep so frequently referred to in 

 the previous pages of this book. 



According to information kindly communicated 

 by Mr. Heatley Noble, of Temple Combe, Henley- 

 on-Thames (to whom I am also indebted for the 

 original of the illustration reproduced in pi. xviii. 

 fig. 2), more than forty flocks are kept by private 

 owners in various parts of the British Isles. Among 

 these flocks it must suffice to refer to those kept by 

 the following owners, viz. the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, at Chatsworth, Derbyshire ; Sir John Barker, 

 at Bishop's Stortford, Herts ; Mr. E. C. Lowndes, 

 at Castle Combe, Chippenham, Wilts; Mr. J. 

 Whitaker, at Rainsworth, Nottinghamshire ; Mr. 

 Heatley Noble, at Temple Combe ; Lady Cowley, 



