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probably with the white goat, and very little with the antelope and the 
mule deer. We have rather a peculiar case of the last species now in a 
very large buck, which has been in the Gardens since March 22, 1894, and 
had previously lived for two or three years some miles out of Philadelphia. 
All that we have ever had previously have soon run down in condition, 
and none have lived more than two or three years, but all have bred freely. 
This fellow has remained in fine shape, and is still in good health, but he 
will not breed either with his own species or with the common deer, which 
cross I have easily made with other males of macrotis.” 
Several specimens of Owis montana have been exhibited in the 
Zoological Garden of Lincoln Park, Chicago, but none of them 
have long survived. Of these, two died of tuberculosis. In 1884 
W. F. Cody’s Wild West Show exhibited a three-year-old ram, 
which on July 1st had fully shed its winter pelage, and stood 
forth in a close-fitting, chocolate-brown coat of hair not exceed- 
ing half an inch in length. 
Scab among Wild Sheep.—In a few localities in the Rocky 
Mountain region Mountain Sheep are now threatened with a new 
terror. The ubiquitous sheep-herder of the West sometimes 
pastures his flocks in the home of the Big Horn. In 1885 scab 
killed many wild sheep in the Wind River Mountains and the 
Shoshone Mountains, and in that year Vic Smith counted forty- 
three dead bodies on one hillside adjacent to the spot where Red 
Lodge, Mont., now stands. In 1895 James Fullerton found a 
herd of scab-affected sheep in a cafion of the Big Horn Moun- 
tains, and in the year following, N. E. Brown found in the 
Shoshone Mountains, near Ishawood, fifteen dead sheep lying 
near together. 
Crossing with Domestic Sheep.—Waild Mountain Sheep are 
said by reliable men to have frequently crossed with domestic 
sheep in their mountain homes, and have thereby caused much 
annoyance. The hybrid animal partakes strongly of the wild 
stock, and bears no wool. 
In 1885, Mr. Rudolf Borcherdt, of Denver, shipped three Big 
Horn sheep to Halle, Germany, where they were successfully 
crossed with the mouflon, and also domestic sheep. Regarding 
this effort, Mr. Borcherdt has kindly furnished, under date of 
April 29, 1901, the following valuable statement: 
“Tn the fall of 1884 a Dr. Hyer, of Halle-on-the-Saale, Germany, came 
to me stating that he wished to procure a few Ovis montana, one male and 
two females, for the purpose of inter-breeding them with other wild and 
