32 POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 
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 
Zovlogical 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, (Ozis canadensis), ig 
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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