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also common on the mountains near White Pass and about the rocky walls 

 of Lake Bennett. 1 was told that they had been killed recently at the 

 upper end of Little Windy Arm on Lake Tagish, but I could obtain 110 

 reliable report of their occurrence in the interior beyond this point. At 

 Lake Lebarge they were very doubthilly reported. Their range is known 

 to extend north to White Pass in the coast mountains at least to Copper 

 River, but does not reach far into the interior. Hunters from the 

 mountains about the upper waters ot the Pelly and Stewart rivers 

 asserted positively that none had been heard of in that region." 



In his article on the Rocky Mountain goat in the " Badminton 

 Library " Mr. Phillipps-Wolley gives the following interesting account of 

 its mode of lite and habits : — 



"As a rule, they live where nothing else would care to, on precipitous 

 rock-faces overhanging a stream where no grass grows, and where there is 

 very little even to browse upon. Just at dawn you may see them crossing 

 a wall ot rock high above your camp in single file, or wending their way 

 slowly from their feeding grounds to the timber-patches in which they 

 lie all day. They are very local in their distribution and very conservative 

 in their habits, infesting one small mountain in great numbers and never 

 seeming to stray into the neighbouring heights. Day after day they 

 appear to seek the same grounds, and retire to the same lairs. . . . To 

 obtain a good specimen head their haunts ought to be visited as late in the 

 year as possible, as the coats are not so white or the beards so long in 

 early autumn as they are in November." 



The first living example of this animal which ever appears to have 

 been brought to Europe was a young male acquired by the London 

 Zoological Society in June 1900. It was purchased from Mr. J. La 

 Montague, by whom it iiad been captured the previous June on Mount 

 Elfa, British Columbia. 



