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the AMERICAN- ARGALI, 
latter di'awn up from recent specimens, and the 
notes made m Arctic America. These we now use, 
•ud foi our illustration have had recourse to a mag- 
nificent ram which lias been lately added to the Edin- 
Dm-gh Museum.* 
“ The Rocky Mountain sheep inhabit the lofty chain 
nf mountains, from whence they derive theii- name, 
lom Its northern termination in lat. 68 “ to about 
*at. 40% and most likely still farther south. They 
a so frequent the elevated and craggy ridges with 
'V iich the country between the great mountain range 
and the Pacific is intersected ; but they do not appear 
to have advanced farther to the eastward than the 
eclivity of the Rocky Mountains, nor aie they found 
^ any of the hilly tracts near to Hudson’s Bay. 
ey collect in flocks, consisting of from three to 
'I'ty, the young rams and the females herding to- 
gether duiing the winter and spring, while the old 
aias form separate flocks, except during the month 
December, which is their rutting season. The 
bring forth in June or July, and then retire 
J^’ith their lambs to the most inaccessible heights. 
^ Drummond informs me that in the retired parts 
® the mountains where the hunters had seldom pe- 
^t*‘rated, he found no difficulty in approaching the 
ocky Mountain sheep, wliich there exhibited the 
^‘mplicity of character so remarkable in the domes- 
^ species ; but where they had been often fired at, 
Her Colombia Eiver, from Dr Gaird- 
inburgh New Philosophical Journal, Jan. 1836. 
