866 A Blonograph of the species of Wild Sheep. [No. 119. 



is five feet 10 inches ; height of the shoulders 2 feet 8 inches ; girth 

 behind the shoulders 6 feet ; head 16 inches long, 7 [to] between the 

 eyes, and 9 Qo] between the horns ; ears erect, l^ inch [4^ inches ?] 

 long, obtuse. The horns deposited in the Museum of this (the Zoo- 

 logical) Society, bear a general resemblance to those of the Rocky 

 Mountain species, but are smoother, and form a much more open spi- 

 ral : the terminal third is very much compressed, the medial interme- 

 diate, and the basal very thick and triangular : they were only in their 

 fifth year of growth, and would doubtless have attained to much greater 

 dimensions. Their length is 32 inches, measured over the front-ridge, 

 and girth at base H^ inches, having a span of 121 inches from base to 

 tip inside : from the tip to first annual depression they measure 12^ 

 inches, and then successively 6^, 5i 4 j, and the incipient fifth year's 

 growth 2 inches. They do not bulge between the angles, which are 

 rather obtuse, and, as usual, are transversely striated. Approximate 

 distance of the tips apart 33 inches. 



*' From the testimony of the Indian tribes about the Great Falls of 

 the Columbia River," writes Mr. Douglas, " this species appears to in- 

 habit the subalpine regions of Mount's Wood, St. Helen's, and Vancou- 

 ver, but is more numerous in the mountainous districts of the interior 

 of California. The only good skin that ever came under my obser- 

 vation was in lat. 46° 14' 65", and long. 121° 17' 0". Forbes, in his 

 recent work on California, appears to allude to it by the name of Be- 

 rindo, which in Mexico is applied to the Antilocapra furcifera,* He 

 quotes, however, the description by Venegos, including the statement 

 that it has a short tail, and remarks, that " they still abound in the 

 plains at the foot of the mountains, and are always found in large 

 herds." It does not, from the context, appear to me that the prong- 

 horned animal is intended. 



* In reference to the name which is here employed, Colonel Hamilton Smith has 

 stated, ill one of his letters to me, " that when I first shewed my drawings and 

 description of this animal in Paris, it was totally unknown, and my account was 

 disbelieved ; Geoffroy St, Hilaire telling me ' vous permittez qu'on doute.' That 

 description, with the drawing, was then already before the Linnaen Society, 

 and after twenty months, when Mr. Ord's account had come out, they at length 

 published mine," &c. This animal is the Dicranoceros of Colonel Smith, 

 Antilocapra of Ord, and Mazama of Ogilby. — E. B. 



