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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
but is also met with in a breed that is common in the 
North of Europe, and is said to have been originally 
derived from Iceland and the Feroe Islands. In the 
latter case it is unconnected with any other anomaly ; 
but in the flocks of the nomad hordes of Tartary it is 
usually combined with an enlargement of the tail and 
adjacent parts, by the deposition of fat, frequently to 
an enormous extent. Specimens of both varieties, sepa- 
rate and combined, have formed part of the Society's 
Collection at the Farm on Kingston Hill, to which 
most of the domesticated animals were removed during 
the summer of 1829. 
The specimen figured is remarkable only for the 
number of its horns. The lateral or true horns rise 
from their usual point of attachment, and describe a 
spiral curve round the animal's ears. The accessory 
horns, two in number, take their origin more internally 
and between the others, and pass almost directly up- 
wards, inclining, as they advance, in a direction forwards 
and outwards. 
