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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 

 Zoological 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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