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THE WALLACHIAN SHEEP. 
pounds, and whicli it is often necessary to support Avith a board set on wheels ! The fat of this 
appendage is said to resemble marrow, and is often used instead of butter. Some of this breed 
were brought into the United States fifty years ago, and a few were produced, the lambs being 
of various colors, white, red, tawny, black, &c., but there was difficulty in propagating them, and 
they have disappeared in mixtures with other breeds. 
The Persian Sheep, found in Persia, Tartary, and the neighboring regions, is a singular 
variety, marked with an unsightly lump of fat on the croup. In Angola there are several peculiar 
breeds, one of which, called the Zenu, or Goitred Sheep, has drooping ears, a convex forehead, 
short hair, a brisket and dewlap like those of an ox, and two lobes consisting of hard, curdy fat 
beneath the throat, appearing like goitres. These are, however, not defects or deformities, but 
provisions of nature to snstain the animal at a season of the year when the earth, in the region it 
THE BEOAD-TAILED SHEEP. 
inhabits, is parched, and vegetation withered or destroyed. In Tartary there is a breed called 
the AsTRACHAN Sheep, whose lambs, taken from the womb by killing the mother a short time 
before maternity, yields a skin covered Avith beautiful curly hair, and which is sent to Russia, 
where it commands a high price. Some of them are of a glossy black, and are much valued. 
In Southern Russia there is a breed called the Pour-horned Sheep, of which the rams have four 
and sometimes five and even six horns ; and in the same region there is a breed in which both 
male and female are altogether destitute of horns. 
