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California, and are never found on the Atlantic slope of the 

 main divide, needs a few explanatory remarks. Two writers, 

 to whose judgment I lend much weight Mr. Grinnell and 

 Mr. Warburton Pike entertain the belief that the animal has 

 occasionally been seen in Colorado and Wyoming. The latter, 

 writing in the "Encyclopaedia of Sport" (Vol. i, p. 456), says: 

 " In Colorado, Wyoming, and Nevada, authentic instances of 

 their occurrence have been noticed within the last twenty years." 



On this point I cannot agree with either until a positive 

 proof of such an occurrence is furnished. It is quite true that 

 one has heard of many such discoveries of the Haplocerus on 

 the mountains of Wyoming, Eastern Montana (near the National 

 Park), and in Colorado, but on following up the reports they 

 have invariably simmered down to hearsay evidence, or to the 

 equally frequent error made by men, who had never seen a 

 mountain goat, mistaking a female bighorn for it. Of another 

 cause of these mistakes an English sportsman, who is an old 

 resident of Wyoming and Colorado, has lately given me an 

 interesting account. According to him, some of the Angora 

 goats imported years ago have run wild, and are to be found in 

 one or two districts of Western Colorado and Northern Utah, 

 he himself having seen their horns. As the exterior appear- 

 ance of these animals resembles in certain respects the antelope- 

 goat, it is easy to account for the mistake made by otherwise 

 perfectly reliable men. 



If there is one region where they might dwell, if once their 

 existence east of the Rocky Mountain divide be admitted, it is the 

 Soshone range south of the National Park. There I have looked 

 for them fairly thoroughly without discovering a single sign of 

 them, notwithstanding the positive assurance of hunters, and even 

 of men above the ordinary run of western "tall-talkers," that it 

 was to be found there. Further north, in the Flathead and East 

 Kootenay country, where the main range of the Rocky Mountains 

 consists really of three parallel mountain chains, the most westerly 

 being skirted by the deep depression formed by the Upper Kootenay 



