American Big Game in its Haunts 



(O. stonei), described by Dr. Allen; Nelson's 

 sheep of the southwest (O. nelsoni) and 0. mexi- 

 canus, both described by Dr. Merriam. Besides 

 these, Mr. Hornaday has described Ovis fannini of 

 Yukon Territory, about which little is known, and 

 Dr. Merriam has given the sheep of the Missouri 

 River bad lands sub-specific rank under the title 

 O. c. auduboni. Recently Dr. Elliot has de- 

 scribed the Lower California sheep as a sub- 

 species of the Rocky Mountain form under the 

 name 0. c. cremnobates. For twenty-five years I 

 heard of a black sheep-like animal in the central 

 range of the Rocky Mountains far to the north, 

 said to be not only black in color, but with black 

 horns, something like those of an antelope, but in 

 shape and ringed like a female mountain sheep. 

 From specimens recently examined at the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, I now know this 

 to be the young female of Ovis stonei. That 

 several species of sheep should have been described 

 within the last three or four years shows, perhaps 

 as well as anything, how very little we know about 

 the animals of this group. 



The sheep of the Rocky Mountains and of the 

 bad lands (O. canadensis and O. canadensis audu- 

 boni) are those with which we are most familiar. 

 Both forms are called the Rocky Mountain sheep, 



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