FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 89 
OVIS DALLI LAMB. 
Mounted by W. R. McFadden & Son, Denver, Colo. 
only the mountain fastnesses of the remote and difficult interior, 
its immunity from discovery would be easily explained; but in 
many localities it inhabited ranges washed by tide-water, and 
lived almost within sight of the traders along the coast. 
It was not until 1884 that the White Sheep was discovered and 
described in print by Mr. E. W. Nelson, a trained naturalist, in 
the service of the United States Government. Strangely, and un- 
fortunately, his type specimens were so dingy and off-color from 
pure white that he was compelled to describe the species as being 
“nearly uniform dirty-white,” which was ascribed to “the ends 
of the hairs being commonly tipped with a dull, rusty speck.” 
Whatever may have been the cause of this peculiar condition of 
