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Adult five-year-old, August 9, 1926. Total length, 1,440 mm.; tail, 
115 mm.; hind foot, 410 mm.; height at shoulder, approximately 990 mm.; 
girth back of foreleg, 1,160 mm.; estimated weight, 200 pounds. 
In summer sexes segregated. Old rams often spent time alone. 
Several rams usually held together and ewes and younger stock formed 
usual flocks. Sometimes small group of yearling ewes would be seen in 
an exclusive company. In August younger rams again associating with 
flocks, but larger rams still hung upon outskirts or rambled about with 
own sex. 
En route out to McCarthy, sheep observed only near Hawkins glacier 
(five or six), August 17, and again next day above Bryson’s cabin where 
three rams were in company. 
Mr. Laing's observations corroborate our conclusion that sheep of Mount Logan region 
are pure white Ovis dalli form. Mr. H. F. Lambart informed the writer that during his 
work on Alaska-Yukon International Boundary Survey, he observed only white sheep on 
Natazhat range just north of mount Logan. Mr. Charles Sheldon, on his sheep distri- 
bution map in “The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon,” 1909, gives limit of range of pure 
white form dalli as extending from north of mount Logan southeast into a small area of 
northeastern British Columbia where it intergrades with dark form, Ovis stonei. A species 
of sheep described by Rothschild, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 238, as Ovis cowani 
Rothschild, the so-called Cowan sheep. He states: “This sheep is nearest to O. stonei, 
but differs in being entirely deep black, with the exception of a white rump patch and a 
grey face The type shot by an Indian out of a large flock was sent to me by Mr. 
C. G. Cowan, of Kamloops, and was obtained in the mountain chain near mount Logan 
in British Columbia.” Locality very vague and competent authorities who have seen 
this specimen consider it undoubtedly a specimen of Ovis stonei, the black mountain sheep. 
Without question the sheep from anywhere near Mount Logan range belong to pure white 
race, Ovis dalli dalli. The writer has for several years listed the blackish Stone sheep as 
Ovis dalli stonei (Allen), as every shade of intergradation is found between it and the 
pure white Ovis dalli dalli (Nelson). The so-called Fannin sheep, or saddle-back sheep, 
Ovis fannini Hornaday of parts of southern Yukon, if it has any value as marking the 
median point between the two extremes of the species, should stand as Ovis dalli fannini 
(Hornaday). 
17. Oreamnos sp. Mountain Goat 
No goats on north side of the Chitina, but said to be plentiful on Goat 
creek, a tributary to the Chitina from south side opposite Barnard glacier. 
Rough southern wall of valley scanned with glasses from Hubrick’s camp 
scores of times, but on only two occasions large white animals seen. On 
July 2, two seen with glasses, and on August 3, three seen at same place. 
All on a green slope above timber. On August 17, a large white animal 
lying on a high slope opposite Short river probably a goat. Andrew Taylor, 
a big game hunter who knew these animals well, quite sure of it. 
From geographical reasons goat of this region presumably Alaska mountain goat, 
Oreamnos kennedyi Elliot, 1900, with type locality given as mountains at mouth of Copper 
river, opposite Kayak island, Alaska, and stated by Dr. Elliot to range in “Coast mountains 
of Alaska from Copper river to vicinity of Knik near Cook inlet.” Another form of goat, 
Columbian mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus columbine Hollister, 1904, has been 
described with type locality “Sheslay mountains, northern British Columbia,” at no 
great distance from general region, and as mountains form no insuperable barriers to these 
animals, and as specimens not available from intervening regions, question of possible 
intergradation or type of goat found in Chitina Valley region still remains unsolved. 
