KAMSCHATKAN BIGHORN.
Kamschatkan Bighorn 2,21
The first of these, a superb snow-white animal, was described by the writer
some years ago as Ovis dalli in honour of Prof. W. H. Dali, the pioneer
scientific explorer 'on the Yukon. The specimens upon which my description
was based were: obtained from the Fort Reliance country by
Mr. L. N. M ‘Questen. Dali’s mountain sheep is found over a wide area,
from the low hillJ§j>eyond the tree limit near the Arctic coast south across
the Yukon and Kuskoquim to the Alaskan range.”
From this it would appear at first'sight that the animal is pure white
at all seasons, but the original description shows that this is not the
case ; and a mounted specimen in bad condition in the British Museum
has traces : ® p a le tawny on the neck and fore-limbs. Hence it would
seem prolfjfcle that the pure white ipsfjiumed only in winter, and not
alwayHthen, since the British Museum example is apparently in the
winter coat. Mr. Walter Rothschild has a pure white head from Alaska
in the Museum at Tring Park.
. f K am sch a t k a n R a ce— Ov is c an aden sis nivicOl a
Ovis nkncola, Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, p. i. pi. i * i829)®| Brooke, Proc.
Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 521 ; Guillemard, ibid. 1885, p. 675 ; Biddulph, ibid.
p. 679 ; Tscherski, Mém. Acad. St. Pétepsbourg, vol. xl. art. 1, p. 187 (1891).;
Ward, Records o f Big Game, p. 249 (1896). •
Ovis montanus, Middendorff, Reise Zool. p. it 6 nets' Cuvier,
(?) Ovis borealis, Severtzoff, Trans. Soc. Moscou, vol. viii. p. 153
(1873!$$ Peters, Monatsberichté Akad. Berlin, .1876, p. 180 ; Bunge and
Toll, Exped. Neusibir. Inseln und fena-Lande, p. (34 '(1886) ; Nehring,
Turidren und Steppen, p. 36 (1890).