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he estimates about twenty-five head. C. A. Mattsson of 

 Salina, says that the horns of the mountain sheep are 

 sometimes found on the mountains there but that none of 

 the live animals have been recently seen. According to 

 J. W. Humphrey of Panguitch big horns were formerly 

 numerous in the mountain ranges west and north of Pan- 

 guitch; but they have now been nearly exterminated. 



Theodore Seeholser of Logan took some mountain sheep 

 west of Tony grove; and saw several in Cottam canyon in 

 1905 and in 1914. William M. Anderson of Vernal writes 

 me as follows: "There are probably four hundred head of 

 mountain sheep in the Ashley forest. Generally speaking 

 the game situation in this section is below the average, I 

 believe, for the middle west. On account of the Utah and 

 White River Indians being located in this part of the state, 

 most all of the game animals have been intensively hunted 

 for many years and not given much of a chance to re- 

 cuperate. Besides on account of our being quite a distance 

 away from the centers of population the enforcement of our 

 protective laws has been rather limited." 



Mr. F. A. Wrathall reports that he once saw eight 

 head of mountain sheep on the north slope of the Uinta 

 mountains at the head of Black's Fork, and that a very fine 

 specimen was found last year by a Mr. Brewer as the ani- 

 mal was floating dead down the Virgin river. Twenty years 

 ago Robert Walker found mountain sheep at the head of 

 Hughes' canyon near Twin Peaks, Salt Lake county, and 

 they have recently been reported from Mount Timpanogas, 

 near Provo, Utah. 



Professor Marcus E. Jones informs me that he has seen 

 this species near Kanab, along the Grand River, near Castle 

 Dale and on the Frisco mountains in Beaver county. Pro- 

 fessor Orson Howard one time secured a hybrid pelt from 

 near Kanab, where this species crossed with the domestic 

 sheep. The pelt was for some years at the University of 

 Utah. • 



F. W. Parker reports that there are a few mountain 

 sheep left on Granite mountain, Tooele county; and George 

 Perkins of Pleasant Green has a bighorn skull overgrown by 

 a tree, which was taken from the same vicinity. 



S. B. Locke says there are a few along the canyons of 

 the Green, Grand and Colorado rivers. Some appear fre- 

 quently along the Grand river near Moab, occupying the 

 same vicinity winter and summer. 



Dr. Hornaday informs me that he had reports of the 

 existence of mountain sheep at Little Pinto in 1899, his 



