328 MAMMALIA. PECO R A. Sheepi 



723 », Wattled Sheep. — 1. £. 0. Aries guineenfis. 



Has hairy wattles on the throat, pendant ears, and a prominence on the back part of 

 the head. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 98. n. 2, 



Ovis guineenfis. Briff. regn. an. 77. n. 5. — Aries guineenfis, f. angolenfis. Marcgr. Braf. 234. 

 Jonft. quad. t. 46. Klein, quad. 14. Raj. quad. 75. Sloan, jam. 3-28. — Adim-mayan. Marmol, 

 afr. i. $9. Leo Afr. 341. — Moutons de guinee. Adanf. Seneg. 37. Des March. It. i. 129. — Afri- 

 can, Indian, Senegal, Guinea, or Angola Sheep. Sm. Buff. vi. 212. pi. clxxiiL clxxiv. clxxv. — 

 Sahara Sheep. Shaw, It. 241. — Carnero, or Bell-wedder. Delia Valle, trav. 91. — African Sheep. 

 Penn. hift. of quad. n. 11. F. Zimmerman. 131. 



This breed is found in many of the warm parts of the earth, as in Guinea, the great African 

 defert of Sahara, or Zara, and other parts of Africa, in India, and has been tranfported into South 

 America. — It is very tall, long legged, and meagre, with fhort horns turned backwards and down- 

 wards clofe to the fide of the head, pendant ears, long fmall tails, wattles on the neck, long arched 

 muzzles, and is covered with hair inftead. of wool ; is fometimes found as tall as a middle fized Afs. . 

 The flefh is reckoned very bad. 



724 0. Broad-tailed Sheep. — I. n. 0. Aries laticaudata.. 



Has long, and very broad tails. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 11. G. Arift. hift. an. viii. 28. 

 Tunis Sheep. Sm. Buff. vi. pi. clxxvi — Barbary Wedder. D°. pi. clxxii. 



This kind is common in Syria, Barbary, and Ethiopia, in Thibet, and among the Tartars. — The- 

 tails are often fo long as to trail on the ground, and to require a piece of board, with wheels, to keep 

 them from galling; they are fometimes pointed at the end, but moftly fquare or rounded, and are 

 reckoned a great delicacy, being compofed of a fubftance between fat and marrow, and fometimes 

 weigh fifty pounds. Thofe of Thibet produce the very fine wool of which fhawls are manufactured; 

 but their tails, though broad, are not nearly fo long as the others. . 



72 c '• Fat-rumped Sheep. — 0. Aries featopyga. 



Has two large^ naked, hemifpherical prominences on the buttocks, and no tail j withr 

 pendant ears. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 11. H. pi. iv-. f. 1. 

 Ovis fteatopyga, Aries kirgificus. Pall. fp. zool. 63. t. 4. f. 1. 2. a. b. 



This Angular breed is common among the Tartars from., the Volga to the Irtifb, and to the Altaic 

 mountains.— They have curled horns like the Common Sheep, pendulous ears, arched nofes, and 

 wattles on the neck ; the wool is long and coarfe ; the head black, and the ears, white and edged 

 with black ; they grow to a large fize, fometimes weighing two hundred pounds ; are ufually white, 

 but fometimes black, reddifh, or fpofeted ; the great prominences on the buttocks are entirely com- 

 pofed of fat. 



Thefe two kinds of fheep, the Broad-tailed, and Flat-rumped varieties, are not diftinguiflied by 

 Dr Gmelin, in his edition of the Syftema Naturae, though they are evidently as widely different at 

 leaft as fome of the other varieties. He fays, that, in general, they are white, fometimes black, 

 brown, or fpotted, and very iUdom grey, or hoary; and that they are cultivated among the various 



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