WHITE MOUNTAIN SHEEP 



Ovis dalli. 



Of the seven varieties of mountain sheep found throughout 

 the western part of our country from Alaska to northern Mexico, 

 none is more attractive than this inhabitant of Alaska and the 

 Yukon Territory. In size it is smaller and more slender-bodied 

 than the bighorn, and the horns are less magnificent, but any in- 

 feriority is more than counterbalanced by its beauty. All through 

 the cold winter, its covering is a long, heavy blanket of pure white, 

 and, in a pleasing contrast to this, stand out the amber yellow horns 

 which, in most of the species, preserve the same peculiar curves as 

 do those of the bighorn. Clad in this garb, and its horns but re- 

 flecting the sunlight, it sports unobserved amid its snowy rocks with 

 quite as much security as its southern neighbor feels among his 



47 



