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wandering hordes of Tartars, particularly among the Kirgifians, and are likewife found over the 

 whole Eaft, in Perfia, China, Syria, Arabia, and Egypt ; he adds, that inftead of a tail, of which 

 only the coccyx is to be found, they are furnifhed with a large and thick bundle of fat, which fome- 

 times exceeds thirty pounds in weight. He quotes the following authors and fynonimes, without 

 any diftinction, of which all feem to refer to the broad-tailed variety except Pallas, who evidently 

 means by Ovisjleatopyga, the Fat-rumped Sheep with hardly any tail, the fat being placed in two 

 large bunches on the buttocks, while in the Broad-tailed Sheep the vaft mafs of fat is confined to 

 the tail itfelf.— T. 



Ovis platyura arabica. RufTel, Alep. 51. t. 52. — O;? «£«£«>?. Aelian, an. x. c. 4. — Ovis arahhe. 

 Aldrov. bif. 404. f. p. 405. — Ovis turcica. Charlet. exerc. 9. — Ovis cauda obefa. Ludolf. aeth. i. 

 c. 10. n. 14. — Ovis laticauda. Raj. quad. 74. J. G. Gmelin, nov. com. Petrop. v. 343. t. 8. BrifT. 

 regn. an. 75. n. 2. — Aries,, f. Ovis Khzrvxi^; orientalis. Klein, quad. 74. — Ovis laticauda, platy- 

 ceros, f. arabica. Amoen. ac. iv. 173. — Broad-tailed Sheep. Shaw, It. 241. — Arabifches; fchaaf. 

 Gefn. thierb. 326. — Hiefege fchaafe. Ofb. oftind. 188.— Schaaf cleren Schwaentz gar feiflt; Ra- 

 wolf. It. iii. 16. — Broad-tailed Sheep. Penn. hill:, of quad. n. it. G. — Fat-rumped Sheep. D^. 

 n. 11. H. — Ovis fteatopyga, Aries kirgificus. Pall. fpic. zool. xi. 63. t. 4. f. 1. 2. a. b. 



jc. Bucharian Sheep. — 1. 0. Aries bucharica. 



Has large pendulous ears, and a long, flat, broad tail, with final 1 fatty bunches on the 

 hips. Pall. fp. zool. xi. 78. 



This kind is common among the flocks of the Bucharian Tartars,, and is found in Perfia, Syria, 

 Paleftine, and feveral parts of Africa. — In Dr Gmelin's opinion, it is produced from an intermixture 

 of the Broad-tailed with the Long-tailed varieties : The tail is oblong, flattened, fat, covered with 

 wool, naked beneath, and ends in a point ; the fleece is exceedingly fine, and is of different colours, 

 as pure white, black, hoary or grey, and of a filvery whitenefs. Mr Pennant probably means this 

 kind, when, fpeaking of the Broad-tailed Sheep, he fays, that fome have pointed tails. 



A. Long- tailed Sheep — 1. /. 0. Aries longicauda. 



Has a very long tail, and is clothed with wool. BrifT. regn. an. 76. n. 3: 



Ovis dolichura, f. ovis tfcherkeflica. Pall. fp. zool. xi. 60. — Ovis alterum genus. Raj. quad. 

 74. — Ovis arabica. Jonft. quad. t. 23. — Schaaffe. Olear. It. 567. — Ein ander arabifche fchaafE. 

 Gefn. thierb. 326. 



Of this kind Dr Gmelin gives no account, farther than what is contained in the chara&er.. 



p. Cape Sheep. — i. %. 0. Aries capenfis-. 

 Has large pendulous ears, and a large broad tail. Penn. hift. of quad, pi. iv. f. 2. 



Neither Mr Pennant, who gives an engraving of this kind, nor Dr Gmelin, who quotes it from 

 him, give any account of this animal, which is not even contained in the text of Mr Pennant's excel- 

 lent work. By the figure, the head is long, and the muzzle thick and a little arched; the horns are 

 fhort, and bent back clofe behind the ears, which are long, broad, and naked ; the body and neck 



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