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50 GUIDE TO THE 
presents the nails of these digits. In all the ruminants, 
with the exception of the Mouse-deer, the bones of the 
digits, corresponding to the long bones that intervene, in 
the human hand, between the knuckles of the third and 
fourth fingers and the small bones of the wrist, unite to form 
a long bone known as the cannon bone. The little toes 
that generally occur behind the former, correspond to the 
second and fifth fingers and toes of the human hand and 
foot, the thumb and great toe not being developed in 
ruminants. 
The collection of ruminants begins with the Sheep and 
Goats, which with the oxen, buffaloes and antelopes con¬ 
stitute the family Bovidce. Sheep and goats are very closely 
allied, one of the most prominent features by which they 
are distinguished from one another being the pre¬ 
sence of a beard in the goats. The horns of sheep are 
less recurrent than in goats, and more outwardly divergent 
and curved forwards. The sheep also are provided with 
small pouches between the functional toes, and by this 
character a real leg of mutton can be distinguished from a 
leg of goat mutton. The majority of sheep and goats 
have horns in both sexes. 
The sheep in the first paddock is the Wild Sheep of 
the Salt Range of the Punjab and Afghanistan, Ovis cyclo - 
ceros, and which also inhabits the hills of Sindh and occurs in 
Southern Baluchistan. It has the most southerly distribu¬ 
tion of all wild sheep, and it is very tolerant of heat, as 
there are not many places hotter in summer than the hills 
of Sindh and Southern Baluchistan. It is generally found 
in small flocks. A nearly allied sheep, O. vignei , is found 
in Ladak, and another, O. gmelini , in Persia. 
The next ruminant of note is the Wild Goat known as 
