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1,200 pounds." Our first specimen was a female, two years 

 old. She stood 3 ft. 2 in. high at the shoulders, and was 

 4 ft. 10 in. in total length. Her entire body was covered 

 by a dense mass of fine light brown hair, of a woolly nature, 

 overlaid by a thatch of very long, straight hair specially 

 designed to shed rain. 



The Musk-Ox inhabits the Barren Grounds of northern 

 Canada north of Latitude 64 from Great Bear Lake to 

 Hudson Bay, Grant Land, and the northeast coast of Green- 

 land from Franz Josef Fiord (Latitude 70) to the most 

 northerly point of laud. About twenty living specimens 

 have been taken when very young at Franz Josef Fiord, 

 by Swedish and Norwegian whaling parties. The Peary 

 Arctic Club, of New York, presented to the New York 

 Zoological Society a young calf which was captured by 

 Commander Peary at Fort Conger, in 1902, but it lived 

 only a few months. 



The Big-Horn Mountain Sheep, (Ovis canadensis), is 

 intermittently exhibited in the Zoological Park, but in 

 January, 1907, it chanced to be absent. The efforts that 

 have been made in New York, Philadelphia, Washington 

 and Chicago to acclimatize the Big-Horn of the Rocky 

 Mountains have proven the extreme difficulty involved in 

 keeping specimens of that species anywhere in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, or on the Atlantic coast. The changes of at- 

 mosphere and temperature seem more violent than Amer- 

 ican mountain sheep are fitted by nature to endure, and 

 thus far all specimens tried have died within a compara- 

 tively few months. 



In his own country, the Rocky Mountain Big-Horn is a 

 bold, hardy and robust animal. H j is high-headed, keen- 

 sighted, and a sure-footed mountaineer. He dwells in the 

 wildest and most picturesque country that he can find be- 

 tween the "bad-lands" of western North Dakota and the 

 line of perpetual snow on the Rockies. His massive cir- 

 cling horns render his head a much-coveted trophy, and his 

 flesh is most excellent food. A full-grown ram (Ovis cana- 

 densis} stands 41 inches in height at the shoulders, and 

 weighs 316 pounds. 



This species ranges from the northern states of Mexico 

 to northern British Columbia and it culminates (i. e., 

 reaches its finest development) in southeastern British Co- 

 lumbia. A female specimen from the last-named region was 

 exhibited in the Zoological Park during 1905 and 1906 : 



