44 ANTILOCAPRA, OREAMNUS. 



Genl. Char. Size of domestic sheep, with much longer legs and 

 neck; eyes large, gazelle-like; no lachrymal gland, low mane on back 

 of neck. 



Color. Male. Upper parts and sides yellowish brown; band 

 between eyes covering forehead, nose and a spot below ear, liver- 

 brown; sides of head, spot behind ear, throat, front of neck extend- 

 ing in two triangles into the brown on either side, entire underparts 

 and rump white. Legs yellowish brown. Horns, hoofs and naked 

 skin on nose black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1245; tail, 178; height at withers, 

 780. 



Fam. I\'. Bovidae. 



Horns hollow, unbranched, non-deciduous, usually smaller in 

 the female, affi.\ed on bony appendages to the skull. Molars often 

 hypsodont; orifice of lachrymal canal inside rim of orbit; lower ends 

 of metacarpals and metatarsals absent; canine is wanting; gall blad- 

 der usually present. Lateral hoofs sometimes absent. 



Sub-Fam. 1. Rupicaprinae. 

 '-Vl, Oreanimis. 



I. 2=°; C. °---^; P. 5=5; M. ^' = 32. 



4-4 0-0 3-3 3-3 -' 



Oreamnos Rafin. Amer. Month. Mag., 1817, 11. p. 44. Type Ovis 

 montana, Ord. 



Hap/ocerus, H. Smith, Griff. Anim. Kingd., 1827, v, p. 354. 



Size moderate; chin with short beard; nose hairy; horns small 

 curving slightly backward; ringed at base; lateral hoofs present. Hair 

 long, pendant; fur short, wooll)-. 



64. montanus.( Oris), Ord, Guth. Geog. , 2ndAm. ed., 11, 1815, p. 292. 



Tv/'e localily. Mountains adjacent to Brant Island, Columbia 

 River, Oregon. 



Geogr. Distr. Higher portions of the Rocky Mountains and other 

 high ranges lying between them and the Pacific, to .\laska. Not 

 found in the Olympic Range. 



Genl. Char. The same as those of the genus. 



Color. Entirely yellowish white. Horns and hoofs black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1018; tail vertebr;i-, 25; horns, 203- 

 257; circumference at base, 82-143. 



65. kennedyi. Elliot, Pub. Field Colunib. Mus., 1900, 111, p. i. 



Zoology. 

 Type locality. Mountains at mouth of Copper River, opposite 

 Kyak Island, Alaska. 



Genl. Char. Frontals much depressed anterior to horn cores; 



