330 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Sheep. 



are covered with long flowing hair, or wool not curled ; the legs are black and naked.; and the tail 

 is fo enveloped in the long coat as not to be apparent. 



729 v. Bearded Sheep.— 0. Aries barbata. 



Has a long divided beard hanging down from the lower part of the cheeks and upper 

 jaw. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 12. 



Siberian Goat. Penn. fynopf. of quad, n, 11. — Tragelaphus, or Hirco-cervus. Caii, opufc. 59. — 

 Tragelaphus. Plin. viii. c. 33. 



Inhabits, probably, Barbary and Mauritania. — The Ikin, from which Mr Pennant drew up his de- 

 fcription of this animal, was purchafed in Holland, and was faid to have come from the Eaft Indies. 

 The horns were very thick and clofe at the bafes, bending backwards, diverging and turned out- 

 wards, about two feet long, eleven inches circumference at the bafe, and nineteen inches diftant at 

 the tips : The general colour was a pale rufty brown; the upper part of the neck had a kind of erec- 

 ted mane ; the under part of the neck and fhoulders were covered with long coarfe flowing hairs, 

 about fourteen inches long ; the hair on the reft of the body was fhort, and intermixed at their roots 

 with a fhort fleece of wool. Dr Gmelin quotes this as a fynonime of the Capra Ammon, which has 

 no beard on the cheeks, 



730 %. Morvant. — 0. Aries jubata. 



Has a fhort mane on the neck, and a long beard on the fore part of the bread. 



Sm. Buff. vi. 227. pi. clxxvii. 



This animal was exhibited at Paris under the name of Chinefe Morvant. The horns have only a 

 half turn in the fame direction with thofe of the Common Sheep ; the beard on the lower part of 

 the neck is coarfe, about ten inches long, and of a mixed red and grey colour ; the mane extends 

 to the middle of the back, and is of the fame colour with the beard, but mixed with red and black 

 hairs ; and the two are joined all round the neck and fhoulders with longifh red grey hairs; the reft 

 of the body is covered with wool, of a bright yellow colour, a little curled and foft at the ends, but 

 ftraight and coarf 1 at the roots ; the legs are deep red ; the tail is yellow and white, and is furniihed 

 with long coarfe hairs like that of a cow, 



731 2. Cretan Sheep.— 3. Ovis Strepficeros. 3. 



Has long, erect, fpirally fcrewed horns, furniihed with longitudinal ridges. 



Hircus laniger, or Cipra cretenfis. Briff. regn. an. 73. n. 15. — Of, l»v%i. Oppian, cyneg. ii. 

 376. — Strepficeros. Plin. hift. nat. xi. c. 37. Sm. Buff. vi. 211. — Aries cretenfis, f. Strepficeros. 

 Bclon. obf. 20. f. p. 21. Aldrov. bifulc. 406. f. p. 407. Raj. quad. 75. Jonft. quad. t. 45. Befch. 

 der berl. naturf. iv. 624: t. 20. Klein, quad. 14. — Wilde Straubengeyfs. Gefn. thierb. 151. f. 

 p. 152. — "Wailachlan Sheep. Sm. Buff. iii. 284. pi. xv. 2d. xv. 3d. — Cretan Sheep. Penn. hift. of 

 quad. n. 11. B. pi. iii. f. 1. Zimmerman. 131. 



Inhabits Candia, ar.d the other Grecian ifiands, and is common in Hungary and Auftria. — The 

 horns of the male are twilled quite erect into a fpiral like the worm of a fcrew ; thofe of the female 

 have the fcrew drawn out fo as to referable rather a loofely twifted rope, and the ends diverge con- 

 siderably ; 



