SHEEP.
Faar, DAN. Casneiro, . . . . PORT.
Schaap, . . . DUT. 0 wzi, Rus. Brehis, Mouton, . . FR. Avi, . . . . SANSK. Schafe, . . . . GER. Pecora, Ovejas, . . . Sr. 0 is, GR. Far, Sw.
Bhera, M'henda, . HIND. Luk, TIBET.
Gosfand, . . . . PERS. K0y1111, . . . TURK.
Til C shawl goat, and a dwarf variety (black, with short horn), also a race of blackfaced sheep, and the dumba or broad-tail, arc reared in Ladakh in great numbers. Four-horned varieties of this sheep are not uncommon. The blackface, or hunniah, stands high, and is a handsome animal. Moorcroft says (Tr. R. As. Soc. i. p. 51) the Purik sheep of Ladakh gives two lambs in a twelvemonth, and is twice shorn in that period. Good ewes appear to be obtained in Cohnbatore and Baramahal ; but Jalna and Beder used to be the best places whence to obtain the white-woolled breed. The results obtained both at Bangalore and on the Neilgherry Bills, from crossing the white-woolled sheep of the country with Saxon, Merino, and Southdown rams, have been satis factory, both as to quantity and quality of wool, and size of carcase. At the liadras Exhibition of 1855, of specimens of woollen manufactures, the most remarkable were those from Hoonsoor, com prising white and coloured blankets of various textures made in tl4Ni.ative loom, some being
imitations of English articles, and a decided im provement upon the country cumbli, and cheap oke,,,, in price. In Mysore, the w ol is largely used in carpet manufacturing. In t Mysore country sheep thrive well. About the yea -1‘840, General Cubbon collected a flock at a farm abbut 60 miles west of Bangalore, and imported three or four rams ammally from Sydney ; these amalgamate so well with the country sheep, both in figure and size, that in the fourth cross it was not possible to distinguish farm-bred from the imported ram. (See Ovis.) Sheep skins are employed for purposes for which a thin. cheap leather is required, such as for cOMMOn bookbinding, leathering for common bellows, whip-lashes, bags, aprons, etc. Sheep skins also form the cheaper kinds of wash - leather for breeches, gloves, and under-waistcoats ; as also coloured and dyed leathers and mock morocco, used for women's shoes, for covering writing tables, stools, chairs, and sofa.s, lining carriages, etc.