NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
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Probably the only place where the goat exists to-day in the 
State of Oregon is the mountains in Wallowa County, in the 
extreme northeast corner of the State, and the animals from that 
locality are probably to be referred to O.fn.missotilce. They have 
long since vanished from Mt. Hood and from the other peaks in 
the western part of the State, where they once abounded. In the 
State of Washington they exist in reduced numbers from the 
Canadian boundary as far south as Mt. Adams, although at 
the latter point they are possibly now extinct. Throughout the 
State the frequency of names, such as ‘'goat rocks,” “goat paths,” 
“goat buttes” and “goat creeks,” testify to their early abundance, 
and they were formerly shot from the decks of steamers on Lake 
Chelan by hunters who took a wanton delight in seeing the 
wounded animals fall down the precipitous banks. 
In the Mt. Rainier Forest Reserve they are found in small 
numbers. In the isolated volcanic peaks along the coast the goat 
is too easily reached to be allowed to survive, and it is probable 
that before many years the interesting animal will be entirely 
exterminated in the United States except in the main Rockies. 
The Alaskan form, at the extreme western limit of the genus, 
in the neighborhood of the Mt. St. Elias Alps and the Cop- 
per River, was described by Dr. D. G. Elliot, in 1900, as a sec- 
ond and valid species, under the name of Oreaninos kennedyi. 
It is strongly characterized by the lyrate shape of the horns and 
certain anatomical features. 
These two were the only described forms, until 1904, when 
the attention of Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of 
Natural History, was called by the writer to the great difference 
in bulk of body and size of horns of the goat of British Colum- 
bia, and those of the Bitter Root Mountains in Montana. Upon 
comparing a number of specimens from the Cascade Mountains, 
the type locality of Oreaninos montamis, from the Bitter Root 
Mountains of Montana and Idaho, from the main Rockies in 
southern British Columbia and from the Schesley Mountains of 
northern British Columbia, it was found that all these specimens 
could be divided into three easily distinguishable groups each of 
subspecific rank. 
The skulls of animals killed in the Schesley Mountains by 
Andrew J. Stone in 1903, were found to be in all respects iden- 
tical with those killed by the writer and Mr. Charles Arthur 
Moore, Jr., in the main Rockies, near the Columbia River the 
following year. Animals from these districts were character- 
ized by great bulk and by a long and relatively narrow skull. 
