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and hair are speckled and shorter than a Stag's, but its hoof is large, 

 round, and cleft as an Ox's. Their flesh is very tender and de- 

 licious." It is also mentioned by other Spanish writers on California 

 of that period. The species then appears to have been lost sight of 

 by naturalists of the 18th century. Tlie only one to allude to it was 

 Pennant, who, as I have already mentioned, calls it a variety of 

 Mouflon. In November 1800, an adventurous Scotchman, named 

 MacGillivray, exploring in the Rocky Mountains along the Bow 

 River, killed several in lat. 50°. He had apparently never heard of 

 the animal before, and found little difficulty in shooting them. In 

 1803 MacGillivray's account was published, with a woodcut, by Dr. 

 Mitchill, in the ' New York Medical Repository.' A specimen 

 procured by MacGillivray was given at the same time to the New- 

 York Museum. In the same year a description, transcribed from the 

 New-York account, was published in Paris by E. Geoffi'oy de St.- 

 Hilaire, with a woodcut from a drawing of the New- York specimen. 

 The cut is almost identical with the one published in New York, but 

 is larger. No name beyond that of Belter de montaigne is assigned 

 to it by Geoffroy. 



In or about 1804 an account of the species was published in vol. 

 XV. of Shaw's 'Naturalist's Miscellany,' with a figure and the name 

 of Ovis canadensis. The figure is coloured, but with this exception 

 and the addition of a background it is scarcely to be distinguished from 

 a reversed copy of Geoffrey's figure. Shaw, however, mentions that 

 a specimen is in the British Museum, and makes no allusion to 

 MacGillivray, so that it would appear that he was ignorant of the 

 New- York publication. The exact date of Shaw's publication 

 cannot be verified. There are twenty-four volumes in the series, 

 the first of which was published in 1790, and the last in 1813, but 

 the intermediate volumes are not dated. It is fair to suppose that 

 one volume was published every year, and that the fifteenth was 

 published in 1804. In 1817 Cuvier mentions it as " probably a 

 kind of Argali that had crossed on the ice from Asia," under the 

 name of Ovis montana, and refers to a figure by Schreber. Schreber's 

 work was not published till 1836, but some of the plates were 

 issued earlier. The work contains two figures of O. montana, one 

 of them being a coloured copy of Richardson's figure in the ' Fauna 

 Boreali-Americana,' which was published after C.uvier's work ; it is 

 therefore evidently the former figure, which is only a reproduction 

 of Geoffroy's, to which Cuvier refers. It is impossible to say by 

 whom the specific name of montana was first conferred on this Sheep. 

 It is assigned by different writers to Geoffroy, Cuvier, and Desmarest ; 

 but the name appears to have been used by Schreber before either 

 of the two latter, and is assigned by him to Geoffroy. From other 

 references it would appear that the name has been erroneously 

 assigned to Geoffroy, and was probably first employed by Schreber 

 •for Geoffroy's figure, the date of Schreber's republication of which 

 is unknown, Geoffroy's name being turned into Latin. In 1818, 

 Desmarest, referring to MacGillivray's account, gave the specific name 

 cervina to the Bighorn. But in his * Mammalogie,' published two 



