1887] FHlornless Ruminants. — 745° 
varieties of sheep, —Markham, Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Barnaby 
Googe, and W. Ellis. 
Pennant divides sheep into two classes: (1) Ovis anglica—the 
Hornless, and (2) Ovis polyceras—the Many-Horned. 
Gilbert White, writing from Ringmer, near Lewes, December 
9, 1773, to Thomas Pennant, has the following on hornless sheep: 
John Lawrence, in 1805, gives a concise “ Description of © 
British Sheep,” of which he enumerates eighteen polled races 
and some foreign races, as Dutch and Danish, which seemed to be 
varieties of the Spanish (Merino). Mr. Arthur Young, the cele- 
“ wa author of “The Annals of Agriculture,” wrote that 
while in Spain I examined the sheep attentively. They are in 
_Seneral polled, but some had horns,” etc. 
Professor Boyd-Dawkins states, “The hornless breeds of 
Piit an back in our country from the days of the Romans, 
tem lids eb ornless skulls have been found associated with Roman 
| Saag in London.” And “from the analogy of cattle it is 
Welsh Mrak they were derived from a horned race, such as the 
is ‘is or old Trish or Exmoor breeds. Nevertheless the horned 
and p erie in the Roman refuse-heaps than the hornless, 
- : in those days Was the dominant breed.” 
