brown, cr spotted ; and very seldom grey, or 
Hoary : t'latthey are cultivated among the. vari- 
ous- wa-ndermg hordes of Tartars ; particularly, 
. •among the Kirgisians ; ai=idare, likewise, found 
sever the whole E'ast, in Persia, China," Syria, 
Arabia, ancl Egypt. He adds that, instead of 
a' taiij of which only the eocc^rx is to be found, 
they are furnished with a large and thick 
bundle' of fat, wiiich sometimes exceeds thirty 
pounds m weight. He- quotes the following 
authors and synonimes, v/ithout any distinc- 
tion: of whieii, all seem to refer to the Broad- 
Tailed variety, except Pallas; who evidently* 
means, by Ovis Steatopyga, the Fat-Rumped 
Sheep with hardly any tail, the fat being 
placed in two large bunches on the buttocks, 
while in the Broad-Tailed Sheep the vast 
mass of fat is confined to the tail itself. ^ 
Ovis Piatyura Arabica, Russsel, A-lep. 51. 
t. 52. — Oii h^ct&io^j .'^i^iian, An. x. c. 4.— 
** Ovis Arabiae. Aldrov. Bis. 404. f. p. 405. 
if — Ovis Turcica, Charlet. Exerc. 9. Ovis 
*«, Cauda Obesa, Ludolf. ^th. i. c. 10. n. 14. 
■€t — Ovis Laticauda, Raj. Quad. 74. J. G. 
Gmelin, Nov. Com.. Pctrop. v. 34-3. t. 8. 
Briss. Regiv An. j5, n. 2, — Aries. S. Ovisf 
*' Vyc^jvKi^coi Orientalis, Kleinj Quad. 74.— 
Gvis 
