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First Series, Photograph 4. 



the mountain type (Roiigifcr inoiitauiis) are found on the head 

 of the St. Mary's River, a tributary of the Kootenay, ranging west 

 to the Okanaga Valley and then north. St. Mary's River is prob- 

 ably their southern range. 



The wapiti or elk (Cervus canadensis), formerly abundant, are 

 now comparatively rare. About a hundred scattered individuals 

 are still ranging on the Elk, Bull, and White tributaries of the 

 Kootenay River, wintering in the lower valleys of the Bull and 

 Elk and on the Steel Fork of the White River. The mule deer 

 (OdocoUcHS Iicniioiiiis) are about three times as numerous as the 

 wapiti and cover about the same range. They are fairly abun- 

 dant. The white-tailed deer {Odocoilcus virginianus macroiirus) 

 are confined to the lower valleys of the White and Elk rivers in 

 summer. They winter on the Kootenay River from Fort Steele 

 to the Montana boundary. The mountain sheep {Ovis cervina) 

 are distributed from the extreme head-waters of the Elk River 

 through the Kanaskis Pass south to the head of the Flathead 

 River. Their chief ranges are ( i ) on the Fording River, four 

 miles west of the continental divide; (2) also on Sheep Mountain 

 bordering Pass Creek, about fifteen miles farther south; (3) also 

 south of Crow's Nest Pass, overlooking the railroad and about 

 twenty miles north of Fort Steele. There are probably about 



