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THE WOOL-BEAEING ANTELOPE. 
Aplocerus lanigcru. 
PLATE IV. 
Ovis montana, Ord. — Antilope lanigera. Smithy Trans, Linn. 
Soc. xiii. — Aplocerus lauigera. Smith, in Griffith's Cuv. 
Capra Americana, Eocky Mountain Goat, Richardson, 
Fauna Roreali- Americana, pi. 22. 
Major Smith considers this animal as approach- 
ing nearest to the ovine form, or that of the sheep. 
It has no lachrymal or inguinal sinus, and no 
muzzle, while the horns are apparently distinct from 
either the goat or sheep, being “ simple, conical, ob- 
scurely annulated, the points bent back.” 
The interesting animal typical of’ this form was 
noticed so far back as 1697 by the Spanish mis- 
sionaries, and, since that period, has been described 
by Blainville, Lewis and Clark, Ord, Major Smith, 
and, lastly, by Dr llichardson, whose trivial name 
we have adopted, and to whose description we shall 
now have recourse as the latest published. 
This animal inhabits the north-west coast of Ame- 
rica, frequenting the lofty peaks of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, and always keeping to a greater elevation than 
the sheep of the same regions ; and Dr Richard- 
