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and .Montana, and continue to diverge until they 

 sink among the hot sands of the mesquite and 

 the yucca. Now, in Arizona, in the Colorado 

 Canon for instance, we still find the sheep, and 

 can find him yet farther down in northwest 

 Mexico. But no goat is so far south. The goat 

 stops more than a thousand miles to the north. 

 It seems clear, then, that goat and sheep will 

 inhabit equal cold, but not equal heat. 



Where, exactly, does the goat stop ? That is 

 something which no book (that I have seen) will 

 tell you. The London book, which I have quoted 

 already, names latitude 40 as the southern limit 

 of his habitat. This is considerably farther south 

 than I have ever heard of him. My knowledge 

 of him goes no farther south than the Saw Tooth 

 Range, which is in Idaho. These sharp ridges 

 nourish the head waters of the Salmon River, 

 and are in the southern-central part of the state. 

 And I am inclined to say, in spite of Mr. Lydek- 

 ker, but supported by Mr. Arthur Brown, that 

 the Saw Tooth and Salmon River country in 

 Idaho is about the southeastern corner of the 

 goat's province. Saving stray and accidental 

 individuals, you are not likely to find him be- 

 yond that point, south or east. I have never 



