242 THE SHEEP AND ITS COUSINS 



Usually the ewes carry a single pair of horns, 

 but in rare instances two pairs are developed ; in 

 both cases the horns are much inferior in size to 

 those of the rams. 



We are unfortunately to a great extent in the 

 dark as regards the origin of these remarkable 

 sheep, although it is certain that the idea of their 

 being natives of Syria is wrong. The parents of 

 the flock at Ingleborough are stated to have been 

 brought from the Cape about a century ago by the 

 present owner's grandfather, Colonel Farrer, who 

 believed that they had been carried there by Portu- 

 guese or Spanish settlers from their own country. 

 Whether the Ingleborough flock, from which the 

 one at Canons Ashby is an offshoot, was originally 

 piebald and four-horned is not recorded ; but the 

 Draycot Park flock is reputed to be derived from 

 small black two-horned sheep, with moderately long 

 coats and long tails, of which about thirty were 

 brought from South Africa to England during the 

 last Zulu War. They were probably hairy sheep 

 akin to the black Baluba maned ram mentioned 

 above ; and when crossed with four-horned pie- 

 balds, the rams increased in size and developed an 

 additional pair of horns. Lambs in this flock are 

 frequently black, with a white blaze on the face, 

 and a white tail ; but such black lambs are not 

 produced by most of the other flocks when kept 

 pure. 



