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MOUFLON 



ARCAL SHEEP 



northerly point of land. About twenty living specimens 

 have been taken when very young at Franz Josef Fiord, 

 by Swedish and Norwegian whaling parties. The Peary 

 Arctic Club, of New York, presented to the New York 

 Zol logical Society a young calf which was captured by 

 Commander Peary at Fort Conger, in 1902, but it lived 

 only a few months. 



The Big-Horn Mountain Sheep, (Ovis canadensis), is 

 exhibited in the Zoological Park, whenever it may be ob- 

 tained. The efforts that have been made in New York, 

 Philadelphia, Washington and Chicago to acclimatize the 

 Big-Horn of the Rocky Mountains have proven the ex- 

 treme difficulty involved in keeping specimens of that 

 species alive and in good condition anywhere in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, or on the Atlantic coast. The changes of at- 



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