Racka or Hortobagy Racka rams with spiral horns, domesticated breed of Ovis aries, from Hungary. Wallachian rams. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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