1817.] On the tame Sheep, fyc. of Tibet. 1011 



or indigenous breed of sheep, and a terror even to the bulls. The 

 Barwal in measures of extent, that is, in length and height, is inferior 

 to the Hunia, but superior to that breed in massiveness of entire struc- 

 ture and in weight, and upon the whole, equal in size. Length from 

 snout to vent 3| to 4 feet. Height 2f to 2f feet. Head, to jut of occi- 

 put, 11 inches of straight measure, 14 by the curve. Ears 2 to 3 inches. 

 Tail only 7 inches. Tail and wool, 8 inches. Girth behind the shoulder 

 3 } to 3£ feet. Length of horns, along the curve, 2\ feet. Their basal 

 girth 13 to 14 inches. 



The Barwal is singularly remarkable for his massive horns, huge 

 Roman nose and small truncated ears. But this breed, like all the 

 others, possesses without exception all the characteristic marks of 

 the genus, as above defined, and none others denied to that genus, 

 whilst the extraordinary massiveness of its horns, though a devia- 

 tion from the other tame races, is a normal approximation to the wild 

 type, leaving the high curve of the nasals or chaff ron as the only 

 anomaly of the Barwal breed in comparison with its wild prototype, 

 and an anomaly of which the other tame races exhibit marked, though 

 not equal, degrees. The head is large, with a small golden brown 

 eye, a horizontal tiny and truncate ear, pressed down in the old males, 

 by the horn, and seeming as if the end were cut off, a Boman nose such 

 as the Iron Duke might envy, narrow oblique nostrils, showing some 

 faint symptoms of the nude muzzle in the manner of the wild Argalis 

 of Tibet, a short thick neck, a compact deep barrel, rather elevated 

 strong, and perpendicular limbs supported on high short hoofs, and 

 having largish and salient conical false hoofs, behind them, and lastly 

 a short deer-like tail, cylindrico conic, almost entirely nude below, and 

 reaching to about the middle of the buttock. 



Both sexes have horns, not a tythe of the females being void of them, 

 and the males scarcely ever without them. The horns are inserted 

 without obliquity, and in contact on the crest of the frontals or top of 

 the head which they entirely cover, and they are directed to the sides 

 with a more or less tense and perfect circular curve, which is sometimes 

 in old age repeated on a smaller scale ; but ordinarily the spherical 

 twist is single and leaves the flattened smooth tips of the horns directed 

 outwards and forwards. The form of the horns is trigonal and com- 

 pressed, as in the other tame and in the wild breeds ; and as in the 



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