NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 13 



Probably the only place wliere the goat exists to-day in the 

 State of Oregon is the mountains in Wallowa County, in the 

 extreme northeast corner of the State, and the animals from that 

 locality are probably to be referred to O.ni.inissoiihc. They have 

 long since vanished from Ml. llood and fmni the other peaks in 

 the western part of the State, where they once abounded. In the 

 State of Washington tb.c}- exist in reduced numbers from the 

 Canadian boundary as far south as Alt. Adams, althotigh at 

 the latter point they are ])ossibly now extinct. Throughout the 

 State the frecjuency of names, such as "goat rocks," "goat paths," 

 "goat buttes" and "goat creeks," testify to their early abundance, 

 and they were formerh' shot from the decks of steamers on Lake 

 Chelan l)y hunters who took a wanton delight in seeing the 

 wounded animals fall down the preci])itous l)anks. 



In the .Mt. Rainier b'orest Reserve the\- are found in small 

 numbers. In the isolated volcanic ])eaks along the coast the goat 

 is too easily reached to be allowed to survive, and it is probable 

 that before many years tlie interesting animal will be entirely 

 exterminated in the Cnited States except in the main Rockies. 



The Alaskan form, at the extreme western limit of the genus, 

 in the neighl)orhoO(l of the Mt. St. Elias Alps and the Cop- 

 per River, was described by Dr. D. G. Elliot, in 1900, as a sec- 

 ond and valid sjiecies, under the name of Orcaiiiiios kcinicdyi. 

 It is strongly characterized by the lyrate sha]:)e of the horns and 

 certain anatomical features. 



These two were the only described forms, until i<)04. when 

 the attention of Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, was called l)y the writer to the great ditTerence 

 in bidk of bodv and size of horns of the goat of IVitish Coltim- 

 bia, and those (jf the Emitter Root .Mountains in Montana. Upon 

 comparing a number of specinuns from the Cascade Mountains, 

 the type localit\- of Ori'iiiiiiidS iiKiiifiiinis. from the liilter Root 

 Mountains of Aiontana and Idaho, from the main Rockies in 

 southern I British Columbia and froiu the Scheslev Mountains of 

 northern llritish Columbia, it was found that all these specimens 

 could In- divided int(^ three easily distinguishable groups each of 

 subs])ecific rank-. 



Tlu' skulls of animals killed in llie .""^cheslex MtunUains bv 

 An<lr(,-w J. .^tonr in i<,i<),v \\>.'re found to be in all respects iden- 

 tical with those Icillrd b\ the writer and .Mr. C'harles .Vrthur 

 Moore, Jr., in the main Roel<ie--, near the L olumbia River the 

 following year, .\uimals froni tliest' districts were character- 

 ized b\- great bulk and b\ a long and relativeU' narrow skull. 



