. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Animals at Khartoum 363. The sheep about Khartoum are of the usual Sudan type, with Eoman noses, long pendent ears, long tails, and hair instead of wool; as a rule they are hornless, but there is a white ram in the gardens which has thin twisted horns. The photograph below depicts some goats of Khartoum. The males grow to a large size, and are very fine animals. The photograph shows how they differ from the sheep of the same neighbourhood by the absence of the " Roman nose," while, curiously, further north the goat
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Animals at Khartoum 363. The sheep about Khartoum are of the usual Sudan type, with Eoman noses, long pendent ears, long tails, and hair instead of wool; as a rule they are hornless, but there is a white ram in the gardens which has thin twisted horns. The photograph below depicts some goats of Khartoum. The males grow to a large size, and are very fine animals. The photograph shows how they differ from the sheep of the same neighbourhood by the absence of the " Roman nose," while, curiously, further north the goats assume this peculiarity and the sheep lose it. EDITORIAL NOTE. Oun readers can scarcely fail to be greatly interested in Captain Stanley Flower's notes on the domesticated animals of the Khartoum district; and it is a matter for regret that nothing is done at the present time in this country for exhibiting to the public living specimens of the more important of such breeds from all parts of the world. Formerly the London Zoological Society took domesticated breeds under its cognisance; but for some time this practice, with a few occasional exceptions, has been in abeyance. Of the reason for this we are unaware; it may be want of space, it may be want of funds. There is, however, no doubt that an exhibition of this nature would be very popular and attractive; and we commend the matter to the attention both of the Zoological Society and of the Royal Agricultural Society. As an indication of how little is known with regard to domesticated animals, it may be mentioned that in all descriptions of domesticated breeds of sheep will be found the statement that in these animals the tail is always long. And yet so long ago as 1870 the late Edward Blyth, in "The Field," pointed out that the Hunia, or fighting, rams of India have naturally short and deer-like tails. While thanking Captain Flower for the loan of his photographs, we may take the opportunity of mentioning that ano
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