MAMMALIA. 271 
[80.] 1. Ovis montana. (Desmarest.) Rocky-Mountain Sheep. 
Argali. Coox, Third Voy. An. 1778. : 
White buffalo. Mackenzie, Voy., p.76. An.1789. (The horn is mentioned page 208.) 
Mountain goat. UMFREVILLE, Hudson’s Bay, p. 164. 
Mountainram. M‘Gittivray, New York Med. Reposit., vol. vi. p. 238, with a figure. An. 1803. 
Big-horn. Lewis and Cxuarx, vol. i. p. 144. 
Belier sauvage d’Amerique. Grorrroy, Ann. du Museum, t. ii. pl. Lx. 
Ovis montana. “* Encyclop. pl. , suppl. 14. Fig. 4. ScuRreEBeEr, pl.ccxiv D.” Ricuarpson, Werner. Trans 
vol. iv. Part 1. p. 22. 
Rocky-Mountain sheep. Warpben, United St., vol. i. p. 217. 
Moufion d’Amerique. DEsmarest, Mamm., p. 487. 
Ovis Ammon. Haran, Fauna, p. 259. 
The Argali. Gopman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 329. 
Ovis Ammon, var.? Pygargus. GrirFritTu, dn. King., vol. iv. p. 318, with a figure; and vol. v. p. 359. No. 873. 
Cul-blanc et grosse corne. CaNnaDIAN VOYAGERsS. 
My-attehk. Crrxz Inprians. 
Ema-kee-kawnow. Preans, BLoop InpD1ans, and BLACK-FEET. 
Ahsahta, Mawnpans. 
PLATE XXIII. 
When Fathers Piccolo and de Salvatierra, in the year 1697, established the 
first mission in California nearly two centuries after the first discovery of that 
country, they found, says the former, “‘ two sorts of deer that we know nothing of: 
we call them sheep, because they somewhat resemble ours in make. The first 
sort is as large as a calf of one or two years old; its head is much like that ofa 
stag, and its horns, which are very large, are like those of a ram ; its tail and 
hair are speckled, and shorter than a stag’s, but its hoof is large, round, and cleft 
as an ox’s. I have eaten of these beasts ; their flesh is very tender and delicious. 
The other sort of sheep, some of which are white and others black, differ less 
from ours. They are larger, and have a great deal more wool, which is very 
good, and easy to be spun and wrought*.” Hernandez, Clavighiero, and other 
writers on California, likewise mention these animals, and Vanegas has given a 
figure of the first-mentioned one, which has, though evidently on insufficient 
grounds, been considered to be the same with the Siberian Argali, and with the 
subject of this article ; while the one noticed in the latter part of the quotation 
has been referred to the species already described under the name of Rocky 
Mountain goat. The speckled hair does not agree with any descriptions I have 
met with of the Rocky Mountain sheep, nor have I heard that black individuals 
* Philos. Trans. No, 318. p. 232; and Jonxs’s Abridg., vol. v. p. 194. 
