368 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



mm.: desert mountain ranges of southern California, Nevada and 

 Mexico. 



O. mexicana Merr, Color drab brown, not so dark as O. canadensis; 

 rump patch broad and squarely truncate; ears very long and large; 

 length 1,530 mm.; tail 130 mm.; height at shoulder 900 mm.; hind foot 

 425 mm.: mountains of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. 



3. Oreamnos Rafinesque. Body stout; legs short; horns small, 

 curving slightly backwards; chin with a beard; nose hairy; hair long: 

 2 species in northern America, i in Alaska. 



0. montanus (Ord.). Mountain goat. Color yellowish white; 

 horns and hoofs black; length 1,200 mm.; tail 250 mm.; height at shoulder 

 900 mm. ; length of horns 250 mm. : high Rockies and Cascades to Alaska ; 

 number of young at a birth i or 2. 



