ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP 



Ovis cervlna. 



This dweller among our high mountain peaks is also very 

 properly known as the "bighorn" because of the size of the horns, 

 which, on the male, curve backward and outward for a distance of 

 over four feet, measuring on the outer curve of the horn, some- 

 times making a complete circle, and measure at the base more than 

 a foot in circumference. The entire length of the body is not much 

 greater than that of the horn, being only about four and a half 

 feet long, and his height is even less, as he stands not quite three 

 and a half feet from the ground. The average weight of a ram is 

 about four hundred pounds. The ewes are smaller in every par- 

 ticular, being only three feet long and weighing one third less, and 

 with short, flat, erect horns, measuring but five to eight inches. 



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