240 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



at Draycot Park, Wilts ; Mrs. Farrer, at Ingle- 

 borough, Clapham, Yorkshire; Sir H. Dryden, at 

 Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire ; and Col. H. 

 Piatt, at Gorddinog, Llanfairfechan. There was ■ 

 also at one time a flock on the Duke of Hamilton's 

 Scottish estates. 



These handsome sheep are fully as large as 

 Southdowns, and have deep bodies, moderately 

 long limbs, and thick woolly tails reaching at least 

 to the hocks. The head, ears, and the shanks of 

 the legs are covered with short, close-lying hair, 

 while the body is clothed with an abundant woolly 

 fleece. As a rule, the face displays the aforesaid 

 white median blaze, which is generally continued as 

 a broad white band down the chest : the ears and 

 the region round the eyes are black, this black area 

 usually extending to a greater or less extent into 

 the neck and upper part of the fore-quarters. The 

 amount of black on the body is subject to consider- 

 able variation ; in a ram presented to the British 

 Museum by Mr. Lowndes there are, for instance, 

 only five patches behind the shoulder on the left 

 side, whereas the black predominates in the two 

 rams shown in pi. xviii. fig. 2. The tail seems to 

 be usually, if not invariably, white, as are also the 

 shanks of the legs, except at the fetlocks, where 

 they may be black. In a ram figured in The Field 

 of July 6, 191 2, the greater part of the body is 

 white ; this prevalence of white being, it appears, 



