Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition article on sheep. It covers the zoology of wild and domesticated sheep (argali, bighorn, mouflon, African hairy breeds), then describes modern British breeds in detail: longwool, shortwool/Down and mountain types, with notes on the Merino. It closes with sections on lowland and mountain sheep management and a short bibliography. Two plates show photographs of British rams, and further engravings show a mouflon and a Merino ram.