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Various ranchers of this region have seen these animals recently 

 and they too have seen only four in the herd. Tnasmnch as it wonld 

 be improbable that a herd as small as seven would split, it appears 

 that three individuals, including: the one male, have met their deaths. 

 At this rate of depletion and with no male in the herd, antelope in 

 Antelope Valley -will shortly disappear unless conservation forces can 

 introduce more antelope to bolster up tliis rapidly disai)i»<niriii^' lierd. — 

 Harvey T. Anderson, Jr., Junior Assistant Fire and Game Warden, 

 Count]/ of Los Angeles, December 7, 1933. 



Fig. 18. M. E. Beatty and the mountain slieep "mummy" 

 in situ witli sliells replaced on horns. Photo courtesy 

 National Park Service. 



MOUNTAIN SHEEP FOUND MUMMIFIED IN YOSEMITE 



GLACIER 



The Sierra Nevada bifrhoi'n. or mountain sheep (Orif< canadensis 

 sierrae), has been rated as extinct in the Yosemite repjion for at least 

 fifty years. That these animals once inhabited this area in fair 

 number, is indicated by the fact that horns and fragments of skulls 

 are often found by hikers in our high country. 



On October 4, 1933, Park Naturalist C. A. Harwell and I were 

 ascending the eastern slope of Lyell Glacier on our third annual 



