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WILD Li ACES OF SHEEP. ; 2 , Ovis Ammon, of the Himalayas ; 
- 3 , Ovis M(mtana, or Canadensis, of 
It is usually supposed that the Ameri- | North Americra and Siberia ; 4 , Ovis 
ean Rocky Mountain Shee]) is the only' Vignei, the '‘sha-])Oo” of Thibet ; 5 , 
wild sheep in existence, d'his is'a mis- | Ovis Cycloceros : 6 , Ovis Jerdoni ; 7 , 
take, indeed, our continent can only j Ovis Sclateri; these being the species 
claim to possess this species at second- ' of the Punjaub, a mountain district in 
hand; as it exists in the Stannovoi | northern India; , 8 , Ovis Gmelini, of 
Mountains of Siberia and Kamtschatka, ] Armenia ; 9 , Ovis Nahura, the “burrel” 
it is probable that the original parents | of the Himalayas ; 10 , Ovis burrel ; ii, 
HEAD OK ovis AMMOX. 
of our race immigrated hither from Asia, ' Olervia Pulla,; and 12 , Olervia Ornata, 
This supposition is strengthened by the Ahe ‘‘aoudad” of Africa, which are a 
fact that nearly all the old races of long-tailed sheep, and the latter of which 
sheep in existence, are found in Asia, ; is the moufflon of the mountains of 
where at least ten species are known to i Corsica. 
occur. Two wild species of sheep are j Ovis Polii is a remarkable species, as 
found in Africa, and one of these is also j may be judged from a pair of its horns, 
in Corsica, and is an immigrant from j which have a spread of five feet. This 
the adjoining continent. It may be in- i is as much horn as is carried by a pretty 
teresting to mention these different races fair Texan steer. 'I'he skull and horns 
as follows : i, Ovis Polii,, named after of this .sheep are used to decorate the 
Marcus Polo, who discovered it in Thib- tem]des of the Thibetians. The sheep 
