THE 
CANADIAN SHEEP. 
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Generic Character. 
Horns hollow, wrinkled, turning backwards, 
and spirally intorted. 
Front-Teeth eight in the lower jaw. 
Canine-Teeth none. 
Specific Character, &c. 
rerruginous-brown hairy SHEEP, with white 
front and rump, very short tail, and com¬ 
pressed lunated horns. 
Belier de Montagne. 
Geoffr. arm. mus. nat. No. 11. p. 3Go. 
The species of sheep here represented, and which 
appears to have been, till very lately, unknown to the 
naturalists of Europe, is a native of the interior parts 
of Canada. It is remarkable for being covered, in¬ 
stead of wool, with very thick and strong hair, 
greatly resembling that of a Deer. The legs are long 
in proportion to the body. The horns very much re¬ 
semble 
