ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 
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resemble more those of the goat than of the Sheep, in fact, whilst the 
fine ei’P.ct body of the male reminds us of a large deer with the head 
of a ram, the female looks like a fine specimen of the antelope. The 
horns bend backwards and a little outwards, and are corrugated from 
the roots to near the points. Tail very short and pointed, covered with 
short hairs. Mammm two ventral. 
COLOUR. 
The whole upper surface of the body, outer surface of the thighs, 
legs, sides and under the throat, light greyish brown, forehead and ears 
a little lighter. Rump, under the belly and inner surface of hind legs, 
greyish whnte ; the front legs, instead of being darker on the outside 
and lighter on the inside, are darker in front, the dark extending round 
to the inside of the legs, and covering nearly a third of the inner sur- 
face. Tail and hoofs black. A narrow dorsal line from the neck to 
near the rump, conspicuous in the male, but comparatively quite ob- 
scure in the female. Richardson states that the old males are almost 
totally white in spring. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Male figure in our plate. 
Length 
Height at shoulder .... 
Length of tail ..... 
Girth of body behind the shoulders 
Height to rump 
Length of hom around the curve 
Do. of eye ..... 
Weight 344 lbs. including horns. 
Female figure in our plate. 
Nose to root of tail .... 
Tail 
Height of rump .... 
Girth back of shoulders 
Horns — 44^ lbs. 
Weight 240 lbs. (Killed July 3d, 1843.) 
HABITS. 
Ft. Inches. 
0 
3 5 
0 5 
3 11 
3 lOf 
2 lOi 
If 
4 7 
0 5 
3 4i 
3 4-i 
It wms on the 12th of June, 1843, that we first saw this remarkable 
animal ; we were near the confluence of the Yellow Stone river with 
