MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDAKY. 239 



In New Mexico, the bighorn is still found in numerous localities, 

 and its Mexican appellation is perpetuated in the names of several 

 places It was found by our surveying party as far east as Monu- 

 ment No. 15, near which, "on the northern border of the State of 

 Chihuahua, two were seen by Seiior Luis E. Servin, the accomplished 

 photographer of the Mexican party, in June, 1892. He awakened 

 from a siesta at midday to see the bighorns watching him intently 

 from a hillside only a few yards distant. Edward Rector and Jack 

 Doyle had killed many bighorns on the Hachita Grande Mountain, 

 in Grant County, New Mexico, where I saw six in 1892 in a canyon 

 at the east base. Numerous horns were seen in the neighboring Dog 

 Mountains of New Mexico, and a large ram was killed within 500 

 yards of Dog Spring, Grant County, New Mexico, September 11, 

 1893, by Mexican employees of the cattle company of which Mr. Van 

 Ormen was foreman. Mr. Van Ormen, who had occupied the ranch 

 at Dog Spring for several years, had seen mountain sheep three 

 times in the adjacent Dog Mountains. In 1890, he captured a j^oung 

 one that was accompanied by its mother and another female, both of 

 which showed great pluck in defending the young one against the 

 cowboys, who were obliged to " rock off " the old sheep before they 

 could secure the prize. This young mountain sheep was only a few 

 days' old. It drank cows' milk with avidity, but soon died. The 

 season of its capture was " between spring and summer." On another 

 occasion Mr. Van Ormen saw four sheep, and at another time eight, 

 always in rugged canyons of the Dog Mountains. In the San Luis 

 Mountains, where horns were found on the east slope in 1893 and 

 signs of sheep were plentiful at the summit, its range extended from 

 1,700 to 2,498 meters. On August 15, 1893, I climbed a precipitous 

 crag, known as the Niggerhead, south of Monument No. 82, and 

 caught a glimpse of a mountain sheep. A short time previously one 

 had been lassoed and killed by Mexican ranchmen near this moun- 

 tain, which is on the Arizona section of the Boundary. At Tomb- 

 stone, Arizona, in 1892, I saw the head of a bighorn in the col- 

 lection of Col. R. F. Hafford, which was said to have been killed 

 in the Glory Mountains, Arizona. Mr. Kempton, of Warsaw, Pima 

 County, Arizona, informed me that a few mountain sheep had been 

 Icnown to exist in the Pajaritos Mountains during the years imme- 

 diatelj' preceding 1893. In the year 1885 I ascertained that moun- 

 tain sheep occurred in the Santa Rita and Santa Catalina moun- 

 tains, and that several were killed in those mountains during the 

 winter of 1884-85 and the meat sold in the markets of Tucson. 

 Arizona. 



