The American natural history - a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America (1914) (14597397328)

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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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Ovis cremnohafes .howev Caliiornia.. . IQli 42U 25M NiA Sheep. . . J /•* // /* BiG-HoRN Ovis canadensis. .S. W. Alloerta IT^:^ 40 25 Mexican Sheep. .Ovis mexicanus. .Chihuahua, Mexico 16>^ 35 18)^ Black Sheep .... Ovis stonei British Columl)ia. . 14 44 25 White Sheep Ovis dalli N. W. Yukon Terr 14^^ 44^ 34)^ Kenai White ) Ovis dalli 1 Kenai Peninsula, ; ..„ „„ p„ Sheep J kenaiensis... J Alaska J It requires no stretch of the imagination to behold BeringStrait choked with the great polar ice-pack, and hardy,strong-limbed bears, wolves, mountain sheep and reindeercrossing over the sixty miles that now separate Asia fromAlaska, and spreading in all directions over North America.

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HORNS OF ASIATIC AM) A.MI.K K AX MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 1. Siberian Argali. No. 1 in list on pirjc 38. 2. Marco Polos Shoep. A specimen of mediuui length only. 3. Bic-Horn. A very large pair. 4. White Sheep. ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT 41 I fully believe that the parent stock of our mountain sheep,caribou, moose, wolves and bears came from Asia by thisroute. The Rocky Mountain Goat, or White Goat,^ is the onlyAmerican representative of the numerous species of wildgoats, ibexes and other goat-like animals so numerous through-out the Old World from Japan to India, southern Europe andnorthern Africa. Thus far without one exception all the ru-mors of ibex that have come from Wyoming, Colorado,Montana and British Columbia have proven entirely withoutfoundation. In one case a Colorado hunter discovered asmall band of once-tame goats running wild and reportedit to Recreation magazine, with a photograph of a mountedspecimen. It is reasonably certain that no representativeof the genus Capra inhabits North Am

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