I 2 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia, Sc America 



THE NORTH-WESTERN BIGHORN 



[Ovis canadensis stone/) 



(Plate I. Fic;. 4) 



The bighorn of tlic Stickeen Valley, British North- West Territory, was 

 separated as a distinct form in 1897 by Dr. J. A. Allen, who described it 



Fig. 2. — Head ot North-Wcstcrn Bighorn. From a specimen killed on the Stickeen River. 



as being of small size and dark colour, with relatively long and slender horns, 

 of which the front outer angle is distinctly keeled. In the following year ^ 

 a bighorn in the British Museum, from the neighbourhood of the Liard 

 River, near the northern end of the Rocky Mountains, was provisionallv 



' //'/■/(/ Oxen, S/:t't'p, and Goiits, p. 215. 



