The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



Alaska to Mexico. These forms, with the locali- 

 ties from which the types have come, are as 

 follows : 



Ovis canadensis, interior of western Canada. 

 (Mountains of Alberta.) 



Ovis canadensis auduboni, Bad Lands of South 

 Dakota. (Between the White and Cheyenne 

 rivers. ) 



Ovis nelsoni, Grapevine Mountains, boundary 

 between California and Nevada. (Just south of 

 Lat. 37 deg.) 



Ovis mexicanus, Lake Santa Maria, Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. 



Ovis stonei, headwaters Stikine River (Che-o- 

 nee Mountains), British Columbia. 



Ovis dalli, mountains on Forty-Mile Creek, 

 west of Yukon River, Alaska. 



Ovis dalli kenaiensis, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 

 (1901). 



Ovis canadensis cremnobates, Lower California. 



The standing of Ovis fannini has been in 

 doubt ever since its description, and recent speci- 

 mens appear to throw still more doubt on it. 

 Those most familiar with our sheep do not now, 

 I believe, acknowledge it as a valid species. It 

 comes from the mountains of the Klondike River, 

 near Dawson, Yukon Territory. 



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