Ii8 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Ovis. 
, Tail long, very broad. Broad-tailed S- 
. Ears large, pendulous; large fatty cufliions on the hips; 
tail o. Fat-rumped S- 
g. Ears large, pen.dulous; cufliions On the hips lefs; tail long» 
flat, Bucharian S- 
10. Tail very long, woolly. Long-tailed S- 
1 1 . Ears large, pendulous ; tail large, broad. Cape S> 
12. Beard long, divided, hanging from the lower parts of the 
cheeks and upper jaw. Bearded S‘ 
13. Beard long, on the fore-part of the breaft; neck with a 
fliort mane. Morvant- 
Inhabits the tohok glol/e, of all quadrupeds the mod dupid and 
helplefs ; lives about 1 4 years ; clianges its teeth with it!* 
age ; bleats ; feeds on ihort tender grais, chiefly flieep’s fef* 
Cue; is infeded by worms, giddinels, confumption, dropfVi 
icab and an eruptive dilbrder like the finall pox ; one ram 
fuflices for 50 ewes; 1) common in England; 2) in all 
Enrobe, particularly the northern parts ; wool harlher, fhorter, 
crifper ; horns turned backwards, fpirally twided, angulatc, 
flat tvithin ; eyes blueifli, with an oblong pupil ; nofe arched ; 
tail round, fnort ; colour ulually white, fometimes black or 
fpotted ; ;)eculiar to Spain ; 4) found in Iceland and 
northern countries, with 2 — 6 horns, the intermediate ones 
ereft ; tail fliort; wool harfli, fliort; 6) inhabits fbutherri 
deferts of Africa and India; horns fmall, turned back .and, 
down towards the eyes ; reaching to the knees ; 7) found 
in 4 fa. and all the cafl; fail confiding of an unwieldy lump 
of fat 30 — ^50 pounds weight; 8, 9) common among the 
Tartars, Perfia, Syria; horns curled like the common flieep ; 
cars pendulous ; dewlaps on the clieft. ; rofoKr various ; 12) 
in Barbary ; horns dole at the bale ; bending back, diverging 
and turning outwaids; body pale rully; 13) beard coarle, 
long, mixed red and grey; mane extending to the middle of 
the back ; body bright yellow ; legs deep red ; tail yellow anti 
wliite, with long coarle hairs. 
'Ammon. Horns arched, femicircular, above wrinkled, flattilh be- 
neath ; dewlaps lax, hairy. Siberian S- 
2. Body brown tinged with tawny ; a white mark each fide 
pointing to the belly. 
Inlidbits in flocks, rocky dry defarts of Afa, Barbary and 
Corjita : fizc of a fmall deer ; aftive, fwift, wild ; flefh and 
fat delicious. 
Colour in fummer brownifli-afli mixed with grey ; beneath whit- 
ifh-grey ; tail fliort, wliite, brownifh at the tip ; hair long in 
winter, flied in the fpring ; ears ereft, acute ; hind-feet longer 
thap the fore. 
Pttdti. 
