American Big Game in its Haunts 



the Siskiyou range, on the boundary between Cali- 

 fornia and Oregon, and that some years ago he 

 saw an old ram that had been killed on these 

 mountains. On Mt. Shasta they were very com- 

 mon until recently. In the High Sierra, south of 

 the latitude of Mono Lake, a few still occur, but 

 there are extremely rare. 



In Oregon records are few. Dr. Merriam in- 

 forms me that he has seen them on Steen Moun- 

 tain, in the southeastern part of the State, where 

 they were common a few years ago. Mr. Vernon 

 Bailey, of the Biological Survey, has seen them also 

 in the Wallowa Mountains. The Biological Survey 

 also has records of their occurrence in the Blue 

 Mountains, where they used to be found both on 

 Strawberry Butte and on what are called the 

 Greenhorn Mountains. The last positive record 

 from that region is in 1895. In 1897 Mr. Ver- 

 non Bailey reported sheep from Silver and Abert 

 Lakes in the desert region east of the Cascade. 

 They were formerly numerous in the rocky regions 

 about Silver Lake, and a few still inhabited the 

 ridges northeast of Abert Lake. 



In Nevada Mr. Bailey found sheep in the 

 Toyabe range. 



Mr. Bailey found sheep in the Seven Devils 

 Mountains, and he and Dr. Merriam found them 



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