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of fur intended to be produced. Black is also in the 
most esteem.* 
The most beautiful Indian breed is said to be from 
Mysore, hornless, with pendulous ears, short tail, and 
the wool very fine, curled in small meshes, and 
twisted like a cork skrew. 
Having reviewed the Sheep, Major Smith finds 
his way to the Bovine races, by means of a series of 
large and powerful animals, uniting in some degree 
the features of both, but although hitherto generally 
referred to the Antelopes, from the outward ap- 
pearance of their horns, yet, perhaps, their real 
structure approaches nearer to the oxen then either 
to the Antelopes, or the Sheep and Goats. Mr 
Swainson, in his late arrangement, places the Da~ 
malis of Smith, as the last of the Goat, which 
he includes in his family Antelopidw, while he 
makes Catoblephas or the Gnu at the commence- 
ment of the Bovida or the typical form of the Ilu- 
minants. 
They are all rather large animals. The inter- 
scapular or first vertebiis of the back are gene- 
rally elevated above the rest of the spine ; and 
Major Smith has observed a curious structure in 
the horns. They ai-e “ placed on or even above 
the ridge of the frontals, having within the osse- 
• Pallas's History of Russian Sheep. 
