Rocky Mountain White Goat 





north as Alaska. It is, however, unknown in the Olympic range of 

 mountains. 



The two longest pairs of horns of this animal recorded by Mr. 

 Rowland Ward measure, respectively, i i .V and ii inches in length along 

 the front curve ; both are from British Columbia. In a pair of which 

 the length is loj: inches, the basal girth is ^\_ inches, and the tip-to-tip 

 interval 5,^ inches. 



Fig. 71. — Rocky Mountain White Goat. 

 Sliot bv Sir E. G. Loder. 



Mr. Phillipps-Wolley speaks in disparaging terms of the white goat as 

 an animal of sport, remarking that it can be approached within short 

 range so easily that it is scarcely worth shooting ; and adding that in a 

 single day he was able to take halt-a-dozen photographs of these animals 

 from living specimens. 



Writing of this species in Part 19 ot the North American Fauna ^ Mr. 

 W. H. Osgood observes that in the Yukon district " goats occur on the 

 high granite cliffs which enclose the upper part ot Lynn Canal ; they are 



