The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



Mountains north of latitude 60 degrees to near 

 the Arctic coast just at the McKenzie, reaching 

 thence west to the headwaters of the Noatak and 

 Kowak rivers that flow into Kotzebue Sound. 



Stone's sheep, which was described by Dr. 

 Allen in 1897, came from the head of the Sticklne 

 River, and two years after its description Dr. J. 

 A. Allen quotes Mr. A. J. Stone, the collector, as 

 saying: "I traced the Ovis stonei, or black sheep, 

 throughout the mountainous country of the head- 

 waters of the Stickine, and south to the headwaters 

 of the Nass, but could find no reliable information 

 of their occurrence further south in this longitude. 

 They are found throughout the Cassiar Moun- 

 tains, which extend north to 61 degrees north lati- 

 tude and west to 134 degrees west longitude. 

 How much further west they may be found I have 

 been unable to determine. Nor could I ascertain 

 whether their range extends from the Cassiar 

 Mountains into the Rocky Mountains to the north 

 of Francis and Liard River. But the best infor- 

 mation obtained led me to believe that it does not. 

 They are found in the Rocky Mountains to the 

 south as far as the headwaters of the Nelson and 

 Peace rivers in latitude 56 degrees, but I proved 

 conclusively that in the main range of the Rocky 

 Mountains very few of them are found north of 



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