FOUR-HORNED RAMo 
Scarce, they bear a higher price in Iceland 
than the common kind/* 
In another part, he remarks, that " the 
Horns of Sheep vary in number, size, figure, 
and dire6lion. In our domestic Sheep, the 
Rams have generally Horns, and the Ewes 
have none. I have seen Sheep not only with 
Two, but wirh Four Horns. Those of the 
North, and of Iceland, have sometimes Eight. 
In warm countries, the Rams have only Two 
shoTt Horns ; and often want them, like the 
Ewes. In some, the Horns are smooth and 
round ; in others, they are flat, and chamfered » 
The points, instead of being bent backward, 
are sometimes turned outv/ard, forward, &c» 
This character, therefore," concludes BufFon, 
*' is not constant ; and, consequently, is not 
sufficient to constitute different species/' 
Aldrovandas describes the Ovis Tricornls, 
and the Ovis Sexicornis ; and Zimmerman, 
Pallas, &;c. among moderns, have also noticed 
the Many-Horned Sheep : but none have esta- 
blished, as a fa£i:, that they are produced, with 
any tolerable certainty, in Sheep of any kincL 
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