84 OVIS. 



Body stout; legs rather short; neck of moderate length; nose 

 narrow, pointed, small naked space between nostrils, rest hairy; 

 chin beardless; ears small, pointed, upright, hairy; tail short, pointed; 

 lateral hoofs present ; glands present between hoofs, and often on face 

 below eyes; canon bones long and slender; skull broadest between 

 eyes, then narrowing rapidly to nose; horns curving backward and 

 then downward in a majestic sweep, tips everted, transverse ridges 

 prominent. 



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A. Above whitey brown 0. c. crcmnobates 84 



B. Above drab brown. . . .O. c. mexicanus 86 





FlG. XXVI. OVIS C. CREMNOBATES. OLD RAM. 



ceTvina cremnobates (Ovis), Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., in, 



1903, p. 239. Zoology. 

 LOWER CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 



Type locality. Mattomi, San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower 

 California, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. San Pedro Martir and probably the Laguna Moun- 

 tains, Lower California, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Resembling 0. c. nclsoni from the Grape Vine 

 Mountains, boundary of Nevada and Lower California, but of a 

 much lighter color, the head of a three-year-old ram being nearly 

 white, with a very small caudal patch not divided from color of 

 upper parts by any perceptible line; fore part of legs almost black, 



