February 2, 1914 
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Vol. XXVII, pp, 1-4 
PROCEEDINGS 
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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
DATES FOR OVIS CANADENSIS, OVIS CERVINA, AND 
OVIS IMONTANA. 
BY WILFRED II. OSDOOD. 
Since tlie publication of a former paper on “ The Name of the 
Rock}^ Mountain Sheep,” * further data relating to the same 
suliject have been brought to my attention by Dr. Charles \V. 
Richmond. At Doctor Richmond’s solicitation, I have arranged 
this matter for publication and included with it a few additional 
notes. The previous conclusion that Ovis canadensis takes 
precedence over the two other names published in the same year 
is not affected except by substantiation. 
The facts as they now api^ear are that Ovis canadensis Shaw 
was published near the first of February, 1804; Ovis cervina 
Deslnarest near the first of March, 1804; and Ovis montana 
Schreber near the first of April, 1804. 
Ovis canadensis Shaw. 
This name was publislied in the Naturalist’s Miscellany, a work of 
twenty-four volumes issued in monthly parts from August 1, 1789, to 
,Iuly 1, 1818. Each part consists of brief text l)y George Shaw and a 
colored plate for each species described. The majority of the plates w^ere 
executerl by Frederick P. Nodder, w'ho seems to have been both puhlisher 
and illustrator, but some, as those in Vol. XXIII, were by Richard P. 
No«lder, w'hile the title page of this volume hears the name PL Nfxlder. 
The dates of the parts of the earlier volumes are quite consistently in¬ 
scribed on the plates showing that the parts were issued regularly on the 
first of each month in accordance with the plan as announced in the 
preliminary prospectus.! In later volumes dates do not occur with the 
same regularity, some volumes having no dates whatever, and this fact 
has been taken as indication that the regularity was not continued! in 
♦Those ProceediiiKS, XXVI, po- 57-fi'2, Murch, 191:5. 
rSee Sherborn, Ann. A: Map. Nat. Hist., (9), XV, p. :37(;, I<S95. 
t See Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, p. 15, March, 1912. 
1—Pkoc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. XXVII, 19M. 
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