THE SHEEP AND GOATS 
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THE BARBARY SHEEP, AOUDAD, 
OR ARUI 
This is a large wild sheep of 
the North African highlands. The 
old rams have avery fine appearance, 
with a long flowing beard or mane, 
and large horns. These wild sheep, 
though somewhat goat-like in appear- 
ance, are typical of their race in 
general habits. They live in the 
Atlas Range, and in the splendid 
heights of the Aures Mountains, which 
lie at the back of Algeria and fringe 
the great Sahara Desert. In the 
isolated and burning rocks which jut 
up in the desert itself into single 
mountains they are also found, living 
on ground which seems absolutely 
destitute of water, grass, or vegetation, 
They live singly or in small families ; 
but the rams keep mainly alone. 
Sometimes they lie in shallow caves 
during the heat of the day. These 
caves smell like a sheep-fold. More 
generally the sheep repose on some 
shelf of rock, where they exactly 
match the colour of the stone, and 
are invisible. The ground is among 
the most difficult in which any hunt- 
ing is attempted, except perhaps in 
chamois stalking; but the pursuit seems 
Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.S8.] 
FAT-TAILED SHEEP 
The fat tail of this sheep was considered by Charles Darwin as due to degeneration 
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PUNJAB SHEEP 
This is an example of one of the breeds which carry no woo. whatever 
[North Finchley 
Mr. A. E. Pease recently 
gave some charming descrip- 
tions of the silence, the rugged 
rocks, and the astonishing 
views over the great orange 
Sahara Desert seen from the 
tops of these haunts of the 
Barbary sheep—mountains on 
the summits of which his Arab 
guides would prostrate them- 
selves in evening prayer as 
the sun sank over the desert, 
and then, rising, once more 
resume the chase. The young 
lambs of the Barbary sheep 
are charming little creatures, 
more like reddish kids. They 
can follow the mother over the 
steepest ground at a great 
pace. When caught, as they 
sometimes are by the Arabs, 
they soon become tame. The 
