BHARAL AND AOUDAD 
back,”— white except the back and sides, where the color is faintly brownish 
gray, ‘‘giving the appearance of a white animal covered by a gray blanket”; 
it inhabits the Rocky Mountains between the Yukon and the Mackenzie. 
(3) Alaskan White or Dall’s, —a little : = se 
smaller than the bighorn, “everywhere . 
milk-white, both in winter and in sum- 
mer, and from birth to old age”; it 
seems to be a tenant of all the | 
mountain ranges north of the sixtieth | 
parallel, from the Rocky Mountains 
to the Alaskan and arctic coasts. Its 
horns are rather lighter both in weight 
and color than those of the others, and 
most resemble those of the Kamchatkan sheep (its neighbor just across 
Bering Strait) which is described as ‘“‘brown gray, the head and neck 
rather grayer than the rest of the body.” 
HEAD OF STONE'S SHEEP. 
The hunting of these sheep, nowadays, at least, taxes a man’s 
wind and endurance, his sure-footedness, skill in stalking, and 
ability to shoot straight,” beyond that of any other game; but 
twenty-five years ago it was not so difficult to get near them. 
In 1874, and again in 1877, I watched at ease many bands 
among the high valleys and cliffs of Colorado and Wyoming — 
fifty in a flock sometimes. 
The blue sheep, bharal or nahura of Tibet, represents 
another type, having horns nearly smooth, and curved more 
like an S than in a coil; and the fur is smooth, pharai 
close, and strikingly marked about the face and 224 Acudad. 
front. Still more intermediate between sheep and goats stands 
the familiar North African pale brown aoudad, as the Moors 
call it (it has many other names), which, like the bharal, has 
horns curving backward from the middle of the occiput, and 
about twenty-four inches long. Its most striking peculiarity, 
however, is the fringe of very long whitish hair on the throat, 
chest, and about the fore legs. 
These odd animals are common in the Atlas, where they range over 
the more precipitous regions of its arid southern slopes from the Atlantic 
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