into the Cassiar Mountains; from the Liard River up the Black River to Walker 

 Mountains; from a lower point on the Liard River to the Nahanna Mountains; 

 from Fort Norman, on the Mackenzie, westward into the main chain of the Rocky 

 Mountains; and again westward from Fort McPherson into the Rockies. 



The trip to the Cassiar Mountains resulted in securing a good series of a new 

 species of Caribou, since described as Rangtfer osborni, the largest and finest of 



Fig. i. Ovis STONEI. 



From photograph of a mounted specimen (the type, No. 12721 Am. Mus.), taken in the 

 Cheonnee Mountains, Northern British Columbia, August 10, 1896. 



the Caribous; these specimens were carried on the backs of Mr. Stone and his 

 men for sixty miles to the nearest point of shipment at the head of Dease Lake, 

 and did not reach the Museum for more than two years after they were captured. 

 The trip to the Nahanna Mountains was for White Bighorns and several speci- 

 mens were secured, and a much larger series of the same species was obtained 

 later in the main Rocky Mountains (lat. 66 30' N.), on the trip westward from 

 Fort Norman. The trip into the Rockies from Fort McPherson was for Caribou, 



