394 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Skull and Horns of Kamchatkan Bighorn. Shot by Prince E. Demidoff. 



E. KAMCHATKAN BIGHORN (Ovis canadensis nivicola). 



Although the Kamchatkan wild sheep is readily distinguished 

 from the Rocky Mountain bighorn (O. canadensis typicd) by the slender- 

 ness of the horns at the points, and their wider tip-to-tip measurement 

 as well as by the shorter, blunter, and more thickly haired ears, the 

 shorter face, the longer hair of the body, and the inferior size of the 

 white patch on the rump, yet the white Alaskan and the black bighorn, 

 in which the horns are of the Kamchatkan type, and the ears are 

 shorter than in the Rocky Mountain race, tend to bridge over these 

 points of difference. These transitions indicate that all the bighorns 

 are essentially local modifications of the same animal ; the Asiatic 

 forms being, as might be expected, the most aberrant. Height at 

 shoulder about 37 or 38 inches ; weight about 250 Ibs. 

 Distribution. Kamchatka. 



onTom grcum- TJp to ^^ Qwner 



curve. 



39i 14^. 28J Kamchatka . . . Prince K. Demidoff. 



38| I4i 304 Do. ... Do. 



-38 I3i 26 Do. ... Dr. F. II. II. Guillemard. 



- Owner's measurements. 



