Many species of sheep only breed once a year. Hampshire Down sheep are traditionally given access to rams in the summer and do not, as a rule, breed more than once. Many foreign breeds of sheep, however, lamb twice a year, e.g. the horned sheep which run half-wild in Patani in the Malay Peninsula. Indigenous sheep of India are said to produce lambs three times in two years, and there is no definite season for lambing. In Argentina the merinos have two annual breeding seasons within the year, but it has been suggested that this may only represent a single, though extensive breeding season. The highest degree of sexual activity experienced by any sheep is shown by certain Australian merinos, which can breed through the year - which implies, in the absence of gestation, an unbroken series of oestrous cycles. A report of the Chief Inspector of Stock for New South Wales (1891) has been quoted as dividing the time of lambing into six periods which embrace the entire year.