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A TURKEY HERDER-SALESMAN AND HIS ELOCK ON THE STREETS OE TEHERAN 



The fowls serve in the capacity of garbage collectors while foraging, for they feed on 

 refuse flung from the grimy front doors of the shops. Note the Persian woman in street 

 dress at the right. 



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Photographs by J. VV. Cook 



PERSIAN SHEEP IN THE POOTHILIyS OE THE KLIH'RZ MOUNTAINS 



The barrenness of the hills suggests the explanation for the development of the fat- 

 tailed \ariety of sheep, the tail furnishing food storage for the dry season when pasturage 

 is scant. 



