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Title: The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Natural history -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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undary, individuals of thisspecies often develop long and widely spreading horns thatdiffer decidedly from the usual close spiral of typical spec-imens. An example is shown herewith. It suggests abun-dant horn food and an effort on the part of Nature to developa wide-horned breed. The White Mountain Sheep of the Kenai Peninsula havebeen described as a subspecies, and are known as Oris dallikenaiensis. Their horns are small, and in form exhibit theclose spiral. The Black Mountain Sheep,^ of northern British Co-lumbia, is distinguishable by the dark-brown color of its sidesand upper parts generally, and by its white abdomen. It isof the same size as the white sheep, but the two species to-gether form a striking contrast. The Black Sheep speciesdevelops its darkest colors in the mountains north and southof the Stickine River. Farther north this species and thewhite sheep have been found inhaloiting the same locality,and therefore we have ventured to show both in one plate. ^ Ovis stonei.
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ORIGIN OF AMERICAN MOUNTAIN SHEEP 37 Fannins Mountain Sheep^ Is a comparatively newsubspecies, found first on the Klondike River, Yukon Terri-tory, in 1900. It is about the size of the white sheep, andhas a snow-white head, neck and tail-patch, and a bluish-graybody, like a white sheep covered with a gray blanket. Italso has a blue-gray tail, and a band of brown running downthe front of each leg. The type specimen was sent fromDawson City to the Provincial Museum at Victoria, B. C,in 1900, and since then many others have been taken. Thisform is a connecting link between the white sheep and theblack sheep, and inasmuch as specimens vary in color bothways into the White and Black species, it would seem thatNature has not yet completed her work of segregatingFannins Sheep as a clearly defined species. In the table printed on page 38 are given measurementsin inches of some of the largest and finest wild-sheep hornswith which I am personally acquainted. Origin of American Mountain Sheep.â

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