The Sciara or Moscia Calabrese is an indigenous breed of domestic

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from the provinces of

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and Cosenza, in Calabria in southern Italy. It is a hardy and frugal breed, well adapted to the poor and stony upland terrain of the area. Sources from the early 20th century describe it as dark-coloured; according to the breed standard, it should be white. It is one of the forty-two autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders; the herdbook is empty. The breed numbered about 15,000 in 1983. No numbers have been reported to

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or published since that date.

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