338 APPENDIX C 



O. stonei agrees in a general way in pattern of coloration with 

 O. cervina (Desm.), but the "umber-brown" or "wood-brown" of the 

 latter is everywhere replaced in 0. stonei with blackish brown or black. 

 It is also a much smaller animal, and the horns are slenderer and have 

 a more outward curvature at the tips. 



From Fifth Annual Report New York Zoological Society, Appendix I, 



pp. 1-4, 1901 



Ovis fannini,* sp. nov. Fannin's Mountain Sheep. Also, "Saddle- 

 backed" Sheep, or "Piebald" Sheep-f 



Type collected by Mr. Henry W. Brown at Dawson City, N. W. T., 

 February, 1900, and presented to the Provincial Museum, Victoria, B. C. 



DESCRIPTION OF AN ADULT MALE, NINE YEARS OLD, KILLED IN 



MIDWINTER 



Colors. Entire head and neck, breast, abdomen, inside of forelegs, 

 and rump patch for four inches above insertion of tail, snow white. 

 Entire body, except as above, brownish gray, giving the appearance of a 

 white animal covered by a gray blanket. This color is produced by a 

 nearly even mixture of pure white and blackish-brown hairs. The 

 gray color covers the shoulders from the insertion of the neck down- 

 ward to the knee, where it fades out. On the outside of the thigh, 

 the gray color grows paler as it descends, until at the hock joint it fades 

 out entirely. The posterior edge of the thigh is white. The lower 

 portion of the inner surface of the thigh partakes of the gray body 

 color, but is somewhat paler. 



* Sheep of variable colors, including those of Ovis fannini, were well known to 

 miners, prospectors, and traders along the Upper Yukon for many years. They were 

 first recorded by R. G. McConnell, in his report of an exploration in the Yukon and 

 Mackenzie Basins, in 1888. His Indians had killed a white sheep near the Peel 

 River Portage, and commenting on the color he says: "The change in color and size 

 toward the north is evidently a gradual one, as the saddle-backed sheep of the upper 

 Yukon presents characters intermediate between the two extreme varieties." "Report 

 on an Exploration in the Yukon District, N. W. T., etc., by George M. Dawson, with 

 extracts from the report of R. G. McConnell." Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 

 1898, page 210. CHARLES SHELDON. 



f Measurements given in this original description have been omitted. CHARLES 

 SHELDON. 



