THE WOOL-BEARING ANTELOPE. 



Aplocerus lanigera. 



PLATE IV. 



Ovis montana, Ord. Antilope lanigera, Smith, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xiii. Aplocerus lanigera, Smith, in Griffiths Cuv. 

 Capra Americana, Rocky Mountain Goat, Richardson, 

 Fauna Boreali- Americana, pi. 22. 



MAJOR SMITH considers this animal as approach- 

 ing nearest to the ovine form, or that of the sheep. 

 It has no lachrymal or inguinal sinus, and no 

 muzzle, while the horns are apparently distinct from 

 either the goat or sheep, being " simple, conical, ob- 

 scurely annulated, the points bent back." 



The interesting animal typical of this form was 

 noticed so far back as 1697 by the Spanish mis- 

 sionaries, and, since that period, has been described 

 by Blainville, Lewis and Clark, Ord, Major Smith, 

 and, lastly, by Dr Richardson, whose trivial name 

 we have adopted, and to whose description we shall 

 now have recourse as the latest published. 



This animal inhabits the north-west coast of Ame- 

 rica, frequenting the lofty peaks of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and always keeping to a greater elevation than 

 the sheep of the same regions ; and Dr Richard- 



