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Palestine, interior and north of Russia, and of which the Tu- 
coman Kalmuck flocks, etc., principally are composed, It isht 
rumped and horned. The second cut (2), representing a ramo ff 
the Primitive Sheep, is that of the “ fat-rumped polled sheep. 
prevailing in Persia.” It is the same as mentioned by Jardin 
Youatt discusses whether this breed,—the fat-rumped,—whit! 
mostly prevails in Palestine, is the same with that of which tit 
sacred historians speak? He shows that the patriarchal bres $ 
was the sheep whose fat was principally deposited, not in the tal 
but on thé rump, or in those parts immediately connected thee 
with. The Persian polled sheep was the more beautiful spe 
men of the primitive fat-rumped breed. | 
“ The level back and belly,” says Youatt, “ the rounded uah 
and the light small leg would induce the easy belief that fron | 
such animal our own down and mountain sheep might "E 
originally sprung.” This is a view similar to the opinion ë | 
to the Zebu being the ancestor of our domestic races 
cattle. | 
In -describing the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Abyssinian r 
tailed sheep, he says in Nether Ethiopia the fat-rumped we 
begins again to be found of rather smaller size than the as 
The smaller sheep, resembling, and, except in size, identical io 
the Persian or primitive breed, is more prevalent. The cut give 
on p. 23 (the polled fat-rumped “Persian) represents the 4 
Abyssinian, but of a somewhat larger size. RE 
Many of the sheep of East India, and particularly the Mys® : 
closely resemble the Persian. They are without horns. — de 
Professor Low says the polled Persian is found in Arabia r] 
countries of Euphrates, into Persia, whence it has been “ee 
times erroneously termed the Persian breed, though in no mn 
Proper to Persia. They are found in Madagascar and along d | 
Southeastern coast of Africa, Abyssinia, and the counta 
the Red Sea. plack 
Youatt, in a note, mentions “a Broad-tailed polled : 
ram at present in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Patty b 
has floored most of his keepers, and is master over every * 
and beast in the place.” This is of interest. em 
Columella has recorded his preference for the “ hornless o ; 
of sheep. : “ted 
744 Hornless Ruminants. 
Early English writers record their preference for the e 
