101G On the tame Sheep, fye. of Tibet. [Oct. 



my remarks, on the mountain races, have insensibly spread, warns me to 

 return to the hills, and take up, without delay, the other branch of my 

 subject, or the Alpine Goats. I shall therefore merely observe further 

 of the long-tailed sheep of the Gangetic provinces or Ovis Puchia,* the 

 Piichia of the natives, that its essential structure conforms entirely to 

 the definition of the genus above given, whilst its deviations in subor- 

 dinate points, (carefully noted above) from the wild and tame sheep of 

 the mountains, distinctly prove the ultimate effects of domestication 

 upon these animals to be, to augment exceedingly the size of the tail, 

 in length and thickness, one or both, to increase the size and destroy 

 the mobility of the ear, and to diminish the volume of the naturally 

 massive horns until they gradually disappear in one or both sexes ; the 

 Romanising of the nose, out of all proportion to the " modesty of na- 

 ture," as seen in the wild state, being a further and hardly less uniform 

 consequence of domestication, though not one which, like the others, 

 seems to augment most under privation of the primitive mountainous 

 abode of these animals, as well as of their liberty and of their conse- 

 quent power, freely to indulge all their natural propensities. The gene- 

 ral Zoology and Regne Animale,f Anotice Dumbas (Ovis steatopyga) 

 in Tibet ; but I am well assured, there are none in any part of " high 

 Asia," or between the Altai and Himalaya, the Belut Tag and Peling. 

 Genus Capra. 



Goats. 



Horns in both sexes. 



No mufle, 



No eye pits. 



Feet pits in the forefeet only, or none. 



No inguinal pores nor glands. 



No calcic tuft nor gland. 



Mammae two. 



Odour intense in males. 



A true beard in both sexes, or in the males only. 

 These animals are further distinguished by horns, directed rather 

 upwards and backwards than circling sideways to the front, as in the 



* Puchia equivalent exactly to caudatus, from Pucch, a tail. 



t Vol. II. p. 390 and IV. p. 330. The Cabul Dumba is polycerate. That of the plains 

 ol India differs not from the ordinary sheep, save in the fat tail. 



