THE LIVING WORLD. 
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The Argali (Ovis ammon) seems to represent the earliest living type, and 
is found in the Himalayas, which appear to have been the nursery of the sheep 
as well as of the human family. 
The Nayaur ( Ovis hodgsonii) belongs to the fauna of Thibet, although it is 
found also in Nepaul. It wears a white collar on its lower neck and carries a 
short mane. 
The Atlas Mountains furnish the Atlas Maned Sheep ( Ovis tragelaphus ), 
which is seemingly an intermediate form between the sheep and the goat, as 
though, in tribal 
differentiation, i t 
had endeavored to 
go two ways at 
once. . 
The Spanish, 
or Merino Sheep 
(Ovis aries-his- 
panica ), has, like 
all that is Spanish, 
a long and hon¬ 
orable record. It 
is large, and the 
ram has great, spi¬ 
ral horns. It has 
a black face and 
exhibits a constant 
disposition to re¬ 
vert to a black 
color. The wool 
•of these sheep and 
the skin of their 
kids are the source 
of its interest to 
TURKISH SHEEP. 
man. 
The Maned 
Sheep, or Goat, is 
six feet in length 
•of body and three 
feet in stature. 
Its curly fleece is 
not like that of 
our common spe¬ 
cies, but is a rusty brown. Its tail is nearly a foot in length and very bushy; 
its horns are stout and long, and sharply curved over the head; its mane is 
short, but as a compensation it has long chin-whiskers, and regular valances 
of hair hang from the shoulders to the feet. 
The Turkish Sheep ( Ovis aries-steatpygci) has become quite celebrated as 
using its tail as a reservoir for the fat which it accumulates. 
The Cape Sheep are not the celebrated fat-tailed sheep, whose caudal 
appendage is considered such a table delicacy, but they are prized by the 
