THE WALL A CHI AN SHEEP, 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns twifted fpirally, and pointing outwards. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 



Synonims. 

 Ovis Strepsiceros, Rati Syn. Quad. 75. 

 La Chevre de Crete, Briffbn Quad. 48. 

 Strepsicheros ou Mouton de Crete, Gefner Quad. 308. 

 Cretan Sheep, Pennant Hift, Quad. vol. i. p. 38. 

 Cornibus rectis carinatis flexuoso spiralibus. Linn. Syft. 98. 



THIS variety is faid to referable the common Sheep both in the fize 

 and formation of its body ; but it is juftly confidered as a curious animal, 

 by naturalifts, on account of the long maggy fleece with which it is clothed 

 by nature, and the upright fpiral horns that embellifh its head. 



It is an inhabitant of Wallachia, Mount Ida in Crete, and of feveral of 

 the hlands of the Archipelago. 



This Animal is diftinguhhed in Auftria by the name of Zackl, and is 

 almoft the only kind which the butchers of that country deal in. It is alfo 

 faid to be the Strepflcheros of the ancients. 



