The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Mtiiv liM,i,...l \. Bralmmiv BuU. RUMINANTIA. 143 of Guinea, which have also long tails, are distinguished by their Jong legs, very convex forehead, pendent ears,want of horns, and short coarse hair instead of wool. The Sheep of Northern Europe and Asia are mostly of smallsize, with a very short tail, [the truth being, that this appendage is merely cut short by the shepherds soon afterbirth]. Those of Persia, Tartary, and China, have the tail completely trans
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Mtiiv liM,i,...l \. Bralmmiv BuU. RUMINANTIA. 143 of Guinea, which have also long tails, are distinguished by their Jong legs, very convex forehead, pendent ears,want of horns, and short coarse hair instead of wool. The Sheep of Northern Europe and Asia are mostly of smallsize, with a very short tail, [the truth being, that this appendage is merely cut short by the shepherds soon afterbirth]. Those of Persia, Tartary, and China, have the tail completely transformed into a double globe of Syrian and Barbary Sheep retain long tails, which are loaded with a vast mass of fat, lu both the lattervarieties, the ears are pendent, the horns large in the Rams and middle-sized in the Ewes and Wethers, and thewool is intermixed with hair. Sheep are valuable for their flesh, suet, milk, skin, wool, and manure; the flocks, well managed, proving every-where a source of fertility. The Lamb is weaned at two months, and sheds its milk teeth from the first to thethird year. The Ewe propagates at one year, and is pr
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