l>ut ]>n>ved unsuceessful, the animals having moved too far southward from their 

 summer range to he overtaken. The win tor trip along tho coast westward to 

 Horsi-hcl Island was mainly to secure information regarding the country and the 

 Musk-ox ranges to tin- eastward. The intense cold precluded the preparation of 

 specimens, although two sjH-oies of Lemming were procured. 



I-Yi.in information obtained at Herschel Island Mr. Stone was le<l to In-lieve 

 that the ranges of the Musk-ox could be easily reached by a trip eastward along 

 the Aretio east. and that the specimens when procured could he shipped hy 

 whaling vessels direct from ('a]** Bathurst to San Francisco. It proved, how- 

 ever, that these animals had retired further south than usual, and while "signs" 

 were met with at several points, particularly south of Cape Lyon, they were not 



Fig. 2. Ovis STOXEI. 



Fig. 3. Ovis CERVIX A. 



Fig. 2, same specimen as Fig. i ; Fig. 3. Rocky Mountain Bighorn, from Montana. Both 

 photographed to the same scale. 



recent, and no animals were seen. The provisions for both the men and the 

 dogs finally became exhausted in the long search, and further quest had to be 

 abandoned. 



Including the trips westward to the Rock}- Mountains and Herschel Island, the 

 whole long Arctic winter was given up to travel with dog sleds. In October and 

 the early part of November, 1898, a trip of 500 miles 250 miles and return- 

 was made westward to the most northerly reaches of the Rocky Mountains; in 

 November and December, again westward to Herschel Island and return a 

 journey of 500 miles; in January and February, 1899, local trips, of between 200 

 and 300 miles, were made in the region of the head of the Mackenzie Delta ; and 

 finally, in March, April, May, and June, a journey across the Delta and eastward 

 for 1000 miles along the Arctic coast to beyond Fort Lyon and return. The t< .tal 



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