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Wallabies, of Australia. The great majority are either gray 

 or gray-brown, and the only striking variation is found in 

 the big Red Kangaroo, (Macropns rufus}. 



THE WHITE MOUNTAIN GOAT, No. 48. 



Fortunate indeed is the zoological park or garden which 

 can exhibit even one living specimen of the White Moun 

 tain Goat. It is a very difficult matter to take an animal 

 from a rarified dry atmosphere, at an elevation of 8,000 

 feet, and induce it to live at sea level, in a dense and humid 

 atmosphere, on food to which it is by nature wholly uu 

 accustomed. Although no one can say how long they will 

 survive, at this date (May 1, 1907) the Zoological Park has 

 on exhibition five fine healthy specimens, two years old, of 

 Oreamnos montanus, one of the most unique and pic- 

 turesque species of all North American hoofed animals. 



For some subtle reason which we can not explain, these 

 animals like the chamois and mouflon quartered in small 

 pens near the Small-Mammals House do not thrive in any 

 of the large, rock-bound corrals of Mountain Sheep Hill. 

 They are kept in a rock-paved corral near the Pheasant 

 Aviary and the Crotona Entrance, and to their use has been 

 devoted a rustic barn, which they shelter in or climb over, 

 according to the weather. To see them walking nonchalant- 

 ly over the steep roof, or perching upon its peak, is one of 

 the drollest sights of the Park. 



The White Goat, sometimes mistakenly called "antelope," 

 or "goat antelope," inhabits many different kinds of ter- 

 ritory, but usually the rugged sides and summits of high 

 mountains, at irregular intervals from southwestern Mon- 

 tana and northern Washington, northward to the head of 

 Cook Inlet on the coast of Alaska. (See map of distribution, 

 with label.) The valley of the upper Yukon contains prac- 

 tically no goats. They are most abundant in southeastern 

 British Columbia, where in a very small area, in September. 

 1905, Mr. John M. Phillips and the writer actually counted 

 239 individuals. 



The animals now exhibited in the Park were captured a 

 few days after their birth, in May, 1905, about seventy miles 

 north of Fort Steele, on a tributary of the Bull River. They 

 arrived here October 9, 1905, and up to this date they have 



