MAMMALIA. 271 



[80.] 1. Ovis Montana. (Desmarest.) Rocky -Mountain Sheep. 



Argali. Cook, Third Voy. An. 1778. 



White buffalo. Mackenzie, Toy., p. 76. An. 1789. (The horn is mentioned page 208.) 



Mountain goat. Umfreviiie, Hudson's Bay, p. 164. 



Mountain ram. M'Gillivray, New York Med. Reposit, vol. vi. p. 238, with a figure. An. 1803. 



Big-horn. Lewis and Clark, vol. i. p. 144. 



Belier sauvage d'Amerique. Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, t. ii. pi. lx. 



Ovis montana. " Encyclop., pi. , suppl. 14. Fig. 4. Schreber, pi. ccxiv D." Richardson, Werner. TranS 



vol. iv. Part 1 . p. 22. 

 Rocky-Mountain sheep. Warden, United St., vol. i. p. 217. 

 Mouflon d'Amerique. Desmarest, Mamm., p. 487- 

 Ovis Ammon. Harlan, Fauna, p. 259. 

 The Argali. Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 329. 



Ovis Ammon, var. ? Pygargus. Griffith, An. King., vol. iv. p. 318, with a figure ; and vol. v. p. 359. No. 873. 

 Cul-blanc et grosse come. Canadian Voyagers. 

 My-attehk. Cree Indians. 



Ema-kee-kawnow. Pegans, Blood Indians, and Black-feet. 

 Ahsahta. Mandans. 



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 of a 

 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 Jones's Abridg., vol. v. p. 194. 



