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formed each member of that band into a 
pitiable object of terror, which glanced a 
few times from the snow on the mountain 
side and with the grateful sense of escape 
from a great and imminent danger dropped 
over the summit divide. 
Of course the tyro in sport will say: “Buck 
fever.” In the immediate presence of the 
fast vanishing big game of America the 
writer often has had and hopes to have again 
that form of buck fever. That veteran 
American sportsman and campaigner, Theo- 
dore Roosevelt, is, I believe, subject to the 

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RECREATION 
between the head waters of the Skeena 
and Stickine rivers, British Columbia. 
Only one very imperfect specimen has 
been brought out ere this and that is in 
the Natural History museum, South Ken- 
sington, London. It was thought that 
this might be merely a rather dark ex- 
ample of O. stonei, but the one shot by 
Mr. Cowan was a member: of a band of 
ten that all showed the same differences 
from the typical stonei. The new sheep 
is black with the exception of the rump 

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DR. WOODCOCK AND SADDLE-HORSE “OLD SEAL” DRAGGING A MIDWINTER GRUB-STAKE INTO 
THE CAMP OF THE GREAT DIVIDE, 1895 
same form of malady and has been known 
to pass much time among the big game of 
this country without even taking the trouble 
to pack a rifle and has taught us both by 
precept and example that the truest, keenest 
of all pleasure to one worthy of the name 
“sportsman” comes in forming the acquaint- 
ance and carefully conserving the lives of 
the wild creatures yet remaining with us. 
To which we can but append our 
editorial, “Hear! hear!” 
New Species of Mountain Sheep 
A new species of mountain sheep has 
been secured by C. G. Cowan, a well- 
known sportsman who comes from Ire- 
land each season to shoot in British 
Columbia, or the Yukon. Its range is 
patch. The sheep was preserved entire 
and sent to the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
Game Propagation in Wyoming 
A number of ranchers in Wyoming will 
undoubtedly take advantage of that clause 
of the game law which permits, with the 
consent of the state game warden, the 
capture of a number of wild game ani- 
mals, for the purpose of domestication. 
Young elk, of course, will be the principal 
game captured, which will be accom- 
plished with comparative ease when the 
animals are in the valleys during the 
winter and come to the haystacks for 
feed. But the capture of the young 
(under three months old) of deer, ante- 
lope, and particularly mountain sheep, 
will be rare. eS 
