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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...V, Zoology, 1S75. pp. 68, 69. JBffoceros (Ovis) Montana, Wagner, Suppl. Sohreber's Saugthiere, IV, 1844, p. 505; V, p. 468. Ovis pygargus Hamilton Smith, Griff. Cuvier, IV, 1827, p. 318, plate; V, 1827, p. 359. Ovis califomianus Douglass, Zool. Journal, IV, 1829, p. 332. Ovis californiana Bltth, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., VIII, June, 1840, p. 65; Ann. Nat Hist., VII, 1841, pp. 199, 260. Ovis californica Wagner. Sehreber's Saugthiere, V, 1836, p. 1371. Bighorn, Lewis and Clark. Type-local it ii.--Canada. lat. 50, long. 115, = Rooky Mountains, in southern part of present Alberta, Canada. "See Baird's Mam. North Amer., 1857, p. 077, figs. 30-32. "San Francisco Mountains, New Mexico." Habits and local distribution.--Although still ranging through the Upper Austral. Transition, and Boreal zones of the mountains of the Elevated Central Tract, the mountain sheep has become a scarce animal. It is usually confined to rocky canyons and mountain peaks. On San Francisco Mountain, Arizona, its range reaches the Arctic-Alpine zone, above timber line. Lieut. A. W. Whipple's expedition obtained sheep at points along the thirty-fifth parallel, in New Mexico and Arizona. In Arizona the bighorn has, until very recently, been quite generally distributed in suitable localities, from near sea level to the apex of the San Francisco peaks, the highest land in Arizona, having an altitude of upward of 13,000 feet. In June. 1887, I obtained horns of the mountain sheep at Smiths Big Spring, on San Francisco Mountain. (Xo. 599, Mearns' collection, now in the American Museum, New York.) At that time a goodly herd of them was ranging on the mountain. In the neighboring town of Flagstaff I examined a mounted male specimen in the possession of Mr. B. J. Brannan, whose brother h...
