396 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Skull and Horns of Kamchatkan Bighorn. Shot by Prince E. Demidoff. 
/£.—KAMCHATKAN BIGHORN (O. canadensis nivicola). 
Although the Kamchatkan wild sheep is readily distinguished 
from the Rocky Mountain bighorn (O. canadensis typica) by the slender- 
ness of the horns at the points, and their wider tip-to-tip measurement 
as well as by the shorter, blunter, and more thickly haired ears, the 
shorter face, the longer hair of the body, and the inferior size of the 
white patch on the rump, yet the white Alaskan and the black bighorn, 
in which the horns are of the Kamchatkan type, and the ears are 
shorter than in the Rocky Mountain race, tend to bridge over these 
points of difference. These transitions indicate that all the bighorns 
are essentially local modifications of the same animal; the Asiatic 
forms being, as might be expected, the most aberrant. Height at 
shoulder about 37 or 38 inches; weight about 250 lbs. 
Distribution. Kamchatka. 
Length 
on front Circum- Tip to Locality. , Owner. 
< ference. Tip. 
curve. 
394 144 281 Kamchatka i : . Prince E. Demidoff. 
383 144 302 Do. : : , Do. 
—38 133 26 Do. : : --Dr. F. Hl. EH: Guillemard: 
352 13} 24 Do. : - DP. Niedieck, 
— Owner's measurements. 
