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Index 



Ovis cervina, 181. 



Ovis da Hi, 181, 201. 



Ovis fannini [Saddleback sheep], 



181-182, 213. 

 Ovii mexicana, 181. 

 Ovis montana, 259. 

 Ovis nelsoni, 181, 187. 

 Ovis stonei, 177, 181. 



Panics among buffaloes, 136-137. 



Pawnee Indians, buffalo skins sacred 

 to, 127. 



Peary, Lieutenant, musk-ox captured 



by, 105. 

 Musk-oxen killed by, 76-79, 93. 



Pemmican, from dried buffalo meat, 



156. 

 Scarcity of, in the North, 49. 



Philadelphia, white goat in Zoologi- 

 cal Gardens at, 231, 237- 

 238. 



Piccolo, Padre, 250. 



Pike, Warburton, 47, 62, 74, 94. 

 Musk-ox heads owned by, roo. 



Pine, patches of, in Land of Little 

 Sticks, 36. 



Platte River, buffaloes on tributaries 

 of, 125-126. 



Prairie bison (Bos bison typicus), 

 165. 



Protection, government, of musk- 

 oxen, 51. 



Provision question in musk-ox hunt- 

 ing, 36-38. 



Provisions in Barren Grounds, 62-63. 



Rae, J., Hudson's Bay Company 



factor, 99. 

 Railroads, effect of, on buffaloes, 



113-116. 

 Ram seen at Livingston, Mont., 



171-173, 183-184. 

 " Records of Big Game," R. Ward's, 



104, 165, 223-224, 274. 



Red Desert Country, buffaloes in, 

 126. 



Red River, buffaloes on the, 162. 



Red River half-breeds, buffalo hunts 

 of, 117, 154-155- 



Rings on rams' horns, 208 n. 



Robinson, John (" Uncle Jack Rob- 

 inson "), 124. 



Rocky Mountain goat [Haplocerus 

 montanus or Oreamnus 

 montant4s\, 231, 259, 274. 

 See White goat. 



Rocky Mountain sheep [Ovis cana- 

 densis typica~\, 223, 259. 



" Royal Natural History, The," Ly- 

 dekker's, 246, 247. 



Rubbing-stones, buffaloes', 131, 163. 



Rupicapra americana, white goat 

 termed, 259. 



Rutting season, buffaloes', 131-132. 

 Mountain sheep's, 184, 208. 



Saddleback sheep [Ovis fannini], 



181-182, 213. 



Salt Lake Valley, buffaloes in, 124. 

 Salvatierra, Padre de, 250. 

 Saw Tooth Range, white goat in, 247. 

 Schwatka, Frederick, 60, 61, 93. 

 Serows, Rocky Mountain goat mem- 

 ber of same group as, 274. 

 Sheep. See Mountain sheep. 

 Shoshone Indians, sheep-hunting on 



horses by, 193. 

 Siberia, fossil remains of musk-oxen 



found in, 85. 



Skulls of musk-oxen, 75-76, 80, 82, 83. 

 Slaughter of buffaloes in America, 



114-119. 

 Sledge, description of, in Barren 



Ground outfit, 40-41. 

 Sledge-dogs, methods of harnessing, 



60-61. 



Scarcity of, in North, 38-39. 

 Snowfall in Barren Grounds, 35. 



