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walls of the Imnaha Eiver. In the Biological Survey collection are 

 about 15 specimens, all more or less imperfect, of heads and horns 

 and bones picked up at or near Fossil, Maupin, Hampton, Sheephead 

 Mountains, Pine Mountains, Ureka Station, Adel, Steens Mountains, 

 Hart Mountain, Crowley, Watson (10 miles northwest), Jordan 

 Creek, Nigger Rock Canyon, Mahogany Mountains, in South Ice 

 Cave, 40 miles south of Burns, and near Lower Klamath Lake. 



There are also records of sheep seen within the memory of many 

 now living over most of the extensive lava beds and buttes of eastern 

 Oregon. In 1916, the writer visited a camp of Warm Springs In- 

 dians near The Dalles and talked with several of the older Indians 

 about sheep. They knew the animal very well and promptly gave 

 him its name as Tsnoon. They said a long time ago plenty of these 

 sheep lived all along the Deschutes River Canyon and in the rough, 

 rocky range of hills south of Warm Springs shown on maps as 

 the Mutton Mountains. The eastern end of this range drops into 

 the Deschutes Canyon about 40 miles south of The Dalles and pre- 

 sents lofty terraced walls that must have been a paradise for moun- 

 tain sheep, as were also many of the almost inaccessible lava cliffs 

 along the Deschutes Canyon up nearly to Bend. Leading into it 

 from the east is the similar canyon of the Crooked River. These 

 Indians had never heard of any sheep on Mount Hood or Mount 

 Adams. 



In a pool hall at The Dalles there were three mounted heads of 

 sheep, said to have come from High Valley, on the desert east of 

 Bend. All were large heads of old rams of the same general type 

 with very long, wide-spreading horns, not very heavy at the base, 

 strikingly different from the usually closely coiled, heavy-based, 

 tapering horns of typical canadensis. In 1915 Lon Vobrath of Bend 

 told Jewett of seeing two mountain sheep in the Deschutes Canyon, 

 a short distance above the mouth of Metolius River in 1885. 



From the John Day River near Fossil, where no sheep had been 

 known for 50 years, two incomplete skulls were sent to the Biological 

 Survey by O. A. Philbrick in 1915 and 1918. One of these is an in- 

 complete cranium with horn cores but no horns or teeth. The other 

 is a nearly complete cranium of a 7-year-old ram with good horns 

 and most of the upper teeth in place. These heads from about 60 

 miles southeast of the actual type locality certainly may be consid- 

 ered typical of the species. Another incomplete head, secured at 

 Maupin by Jewett in 1927, is from still nearer to the type locality 

 of the species. 



Farther up the John Day River on Bridge Creek, Jewett was told 

 by old settlers who came there in 1873 of bands of 50 or more moun- 

 tain sheep seen in the John Day section, but he did not learn when 

 the sheep had become extinct, only that none had been seen for a long 

 time. 



In 1916, at Burns, the writer was told by Dibble, proprietor of the 

 Burns Hotel, that 25 years ago mountain sheep were numerous on all 

 the rimrock of the surrounding country, from Burns to Bend, on the 

 rough rim of Dry Basin, on Glass Mountain, Rams Rock, Juniper 

 Mountain, in the Warner and Abert Mountains, around Christmas 

 Lake, and even out on the sagebrush plains. He said they used to 

 come down to the domestic sheep herds when these were first brought 





