THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
stiffer along the spinal column. The wool was formerly formed into a 
sort of felted yarn by the Indians by teasing it and then rolling it under 
the palm on the bare thigh. 
The hunting of this animal requires climbing to the topmost 
heights of the most alpine of American mountains, unless one 
goes to Alaska, where the altitudes but scarcely the difficulties 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WHITE GOATS AT HOME. 
will be less. Its home is in the far Northwest, where the cli- 
mate is damp and the snowfall abundant. Nowadays it is not 
to be found south of northwestern Montana. In British Co- 
lumbia it is widely distributed from the eastern slope of the 
Rockies to Pacific tidewater; and it is abundant throughout 
southeastern Alaska. It is a singular fact that sheep and 
goats rarely live in the same range, or when they do never 
apparently on the same mountain. 
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