SHEEP— BOTH WHITE AND DARK 



ural home of the stonei (the Cassiar Mountains 

 of British Columbia and some surrounding terri- 

 tory) the more pronounced in numbers these 

 black and dark-colored hairs become, until ovis 

 stonei is found. (Most of the sheep collected by 

 our expedition were found on close inspection to 

 have plenty of black hairs, although they were 

 so limited as not to be seen at even so short a 

 distance as ten or twelve feet.) 



At the present day sheep are almost oblit- 

 erated in the United States except in Wyoming, 

 Montana and Idaho — and even in the latter two 

 States it has been found advisable to place a per- 

 petual closed season on them. At the present 

 time big-horn sheep may be killed only in one 

 State of the Union — Wyoming — and I anticipate 

 that an absolute closed season will be placed on 

 them at Wyoming's present Assembly, thereby 

 rendering the big-horn immune from rifle fire 

 in every State of the Union. Thus shall have 

 passed from the sportsman's pursuit one of the 

 most highly-prized and picturesque of the 

 American wild animals. 



John B. Burnham, president of the American 

 Game Protective and Propagation Association 

 (of which every American sportsman should be a 

 member), and who has hunted all the different 

 varieties of big game in nearly every section of 

 this continent, writes me concerning sheep: 



"If not today, the time is not far distant when 

 in dollars and cents sheep will be the most val- 



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