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year round when food is sufficiently plentiful? — ^Ernest Thompson Seton, 
Greenwich, Conn. 
FORMER RANGE OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 
Recent references to the occurrence of mountain sheep in northern California 
appear to be restricted to Mount Shasta .and the adjacent Sheep Rock, a locality 
only a few miles north of the great mountain. The present Sheep Rock however 
is very different from the Sheep Rock of the early gold-seekers. The latter, as 
shown by George Gibbs in his Journal. and accompanying map of the McKee 
Expedition of 1851, was situated on the west side of Scott Mountains, a range to 
the west of Shasta Valley, which it separates from Scott Valley. The Sheep 
Rock of 1851 is a prominent landmark as seen from Scott Valley, and is now known 
both locally and on the maps of the Geological Survey as Skookum Rock. It 
was inhabited by Sheep in Gibbs’ time — how much later we do not know. 
The Shaste Indians tell me that sheep formerly occurred on Goose Nest Moun- 
tain and on Bogus Mountain north of Goose Nest Mountain, and also in the 
Siskiyous, but just how far west they ranged in the Siskiyous I have not been 
able to ascertain. In 1888 I saw in a hardware store in Portland, Oregon, a 
mounted ram of large size killed in the Siskiyous by the proprietor of the store. 
It would be interesting to know whether the big horn of these elevated moun- 
tains — ^Mount Shasta, Scott Mountains, Goose Nest Mountain, Bogus Mountain, 
and the Siskiyous — ^was the same species as the one formerly inhabiting the 
Modok Lava Beds in the northeastern corner of California. — C. Hart Merriam, 
Washington, D. C. 
TWO MAMMALS NEW FOR OHIO 
On February 2, 1921, Mr. Franklin Grothaus, a young farmer of my parish, 
brought me a fine d' of Mustela cicognani. For years the state of Ohio has been' 
searched for this species, but the fact that the closest point to Ohio where it 
had been taken was in Pennsylvania, about 600 miles from here, and in Michigan, 
about 500 miles to the north, made it unlikely that it ever would be found. It 
is with pleasure that I record this new species for the state of Ohio. Measure- 
ments: length, 268 mm.; tail, 67 mm.; h. f., 30 mm. The specimen is now in my 
collection. 
The other species new for Ohio, one that has been diligently looked for, as all 
the old records turned out to be something else, is Microtus ochrogaster, of which 
I have 3 specimens up to date, all taken by Mr. Hy. Ruese, a farmer of my parish 
living in Shelby County, Ohio, 2| miles east of New Bremen. The first one, a 9 
taken February 15, 1921, measured : length, 131 mm. ; tail, 21 mm. ; h. f ., 17.5 mm. ; 
mammae 6, foetuses 4. The second one, taken February 22, 1921, a cT, measured: 
length, 126 mm.; tail, 20 mm.; h. f., 17mm. Four weeks of trapping did not 
yield any results till on April 5 another 9 was caught, measuring 130 mm. in 
length; tail, 19 mm.; h. f., 17 mm.; mammae 6, foetuses 0. Thus it seems to be 
that the species is very rare here and probably reaches its easternmost point of 
distribution. — W. F. Henninger, New Bremen, Ohio. 
