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Michel, to visit a salt-lick. At Skaguay, Alaska, goats 

 have been killed in the suburbs of the town, only a few 

 feet above tide-water. Mr. W. H. Wright says that until 

 very recently goats descended every fall from the main 

 range of the Rocky Mountains in north-western Mon- 

 tana, and crossed the level Flathead Valley, a distance 

 of about fifteen miles, to the Mission Mountains, return- 

 ing in the spring. 



The known range of the mountain goat extends from 

 the Teton Mountains of Wyoming (1892) northward 

 along the main range of the Rockies to the latitude of 

 Ft. Simpson, 62°. Northward of that point, we lack in- 

 formation, but it is very probable that on the main Rocky 

 Mountain range only, but not westward thereof, it will be 

 found much farther north than the sixty-second parallel. 



Along the Pacific coast, from Vancouver northward 

 to Cook Inlet, the range of this animal in the coast 

 mountains is almost continuous. From the great inte- 

 rior area of Yukon Territory, from the main chain of the 

 Rockies to the coast mountains, the species is totally absent. 



Regarding the eastern limit of the mountain goat, a 

 surprising record has come from Mr. M. P. Dunham, 

 of Ovando, Montana, a guide and hunter of forty years' 

 experience on the trail, who knows this animal very well. 

 He states that in 1882 or 1883, he killed two mountain 

 goats in the Chalk Buttes on Box Elder Creek, a tribu- 

 tary of the Little Missouri, in western North Dakota. 

 At first the great distance of this locality (about four 

 hundred miles) from the main range of the Rockies 

 made this report seem almost incredible, but the record 



