1847.] On the tame Sheep, $-c. of Tibet. 1025 



conformable both in essential and in subordinate points to the charac- 

 ters we have called generic, and as such placed at the head of our 

 paper; so that, as has been already remarked, domestication would 

 seem to have produced much less impression on the primitive goat, as 

 typed by (Egagrus than on the primitive sheep as typed by Ammon. 



The Diigu measures from snout to rump 3f to 4 feet and about 2 

 feet in height. Head by the curve 11 to 11|, straight 9 to 10 inches. 

 Tail only 5. Tail and hair 8-J-. Ears 5^ to 6 inches. Horns by curve 

 14 to 16. Their Basal periphery 6 to 7. Girth of chest 2 to 2£ feet. 

 The Dugii is of medial size and well proportioned, the male being 

 much larger than the female, and frequently shaggy, whilst she is always 

 smooth. There is no sub-fleece and the hair is coarse and turned to no 

 use, the skin only being of value when the flesh is disposed of, and the 

 skin but rarely and unskilfully turned to use. The muzzle of the Dugii 

 is dry and hairy : the face unarched : the forehead considerably so : the 

 ears largish and horizontal or pendant : the moderate horns turn up 

 simply backwards, without spiral twist and with but a vague keel, 

 though it be traceable enough in the anteal sharp edge : the neck 

 spare : the body longish yet full : the rigid limbs nor short nor long, 

 with high short hoofs and conic false hoofs : and, lastly, medial tail, 

 depressed and nude below and curvately raised in the males. The eye 

 pits and mufle and groin pits are as invariably absent as in the other 

 breeds ; and the feet pits more frequently wanting than in any. The 

 beard is ample in both sexes, and the females always have horns and two 

 teats ; and their hair is close and smooth. Intestines 93-7, whereof 

 the small are 70 and the great 23 feet 7 inches. Ccecum 13 inches by 

 4. xlnother 108 feet, whereof small are 82, and great 26 feet, and 

 the Ccecum 3 feet ! The Diigti breeds all the year round, but most 

 young are produced at the close of the rains in autumn, being begotten 

 in spring. Two are frequent at a birth, and two births in a year have 

 been heard of; but most rarely, and well may be so, if it be true, as 

 insisted on to me, that this breed likewise gestates above 5 months or 

 160 days.* 



And now, before concluding this long paper, I will take leave to 

 remark, that the facts so carefully amassed, the fruit of years of patient 



* For the period of Caprial gestation see Penny Magazine sob voce, as well as the 

 General Zoology and llegne Animal as quoted supra. 



