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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: ...in color. Suborbital gland and lachrymal fossa usually present, but generally small. Foot glands in all the feet. Chin not bearded; males without a strong odor. (Flower and Lydelclcer.) Forms of the bighorn or mountain sheep, the only wild sheep of the Mexican Boundary Region, occur in precipitous mountains, ranging from sea level, at the Gulf of California, to the summits of the highest mountains, its range extending through each of the faunas from the Arid Tropical to the Arctic-Alpine. ' OVIS CANADENSIS MEXICANUS (Merriam). MEXICAN BIGHORN OR MOUNTAIN SHEEP. I Ovis mcaficamls MERRIAM, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIV, p. 30, Apr. 5, 1901 (original description).--M1Lr.ER and REHN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXXI, No. 3, Aug. 27, 1903. p. 72 (Syst. Results Study N. Am. Mam. during the years 1901 and 1902).--BARBER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV, Oct. 10, 1902, p. 191 (Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, in March, 1901). Qvis cervina mm-icanus. Enuor, Field Col. Mus., Zoo. Ser., IV, Pt. 1, 1904, p. 86, pls. XXXIV, xxxv (skull). (Mam. Mid. A_m.) Pang'-waih of the Hopi Indians of northeastern Arizona. Cimarron of the Mexicans. Type-Z0cal2'ty.--Lake Santa Maria, Chihuahua, Mexico. Gerigmp/rival mnge.--North-central Mexico, northward into the mountains of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, ranging from the Upper Austral to the Boreal zone. _ Descrviption.-I'ollowing is the original description: " Type from Lake Santa Maria, Chihuahua, No. 99342, male ad. U.S.N.M., Biological Survey Collection. Collected Sept. 16, 1899, by E. VV. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Orig. No. 13974. " 0haracte1's.--Size large; color dark, much darker than nelsoni, but less dark than canadensz's; horns large, massive, dark, not strongly outcurved; hoofs and m...