Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat

by Caspar Whitney; George Bird Grinnell; Owen Wister

The horns of the ewes are very small in comparison to those of the rams, seldom measuring more than 15 inches on the curve from base to tip. Large male horns are now difficult to obtain, and of late years it is seldom that those of fresh-killed specimens are seen exceeding 38 inches on the curve from tip to tip. American sportsmen are keen to obtain horns of large basal girth; but these, as will be seen from the following table, rarely exceed 16 inches. The Maclaine of Lochbuie possesses a specimen whose girth, according to his own measurement, is 19 inches.

Distribution.—North America, from the Rocky Mountains southward to Sonora, northern Mexico, and California, and northward to Alaska and the shores of Bering Sea. The Alaskan race, for at least some portion of the year, is snow-white.

Measurements of Horns

Length on Front Curve	Circumference	Tip to Tip	Locality	Owner
—52½	18½	..	The Selkirks, B.C., 1885	W. F. Sheard
—45	..	..	?	W. Grant Mackay
—42½	16¼	25¾	Lower California	George H. Gould
42	16	(tips much worn)	Wyoming	Picked up by T. W. H. Clarke
..	17¼	..	Wyoming	T. W. H. Clarke
—41½	15	..	Kootenay, B.C.	Measured by John Fannin, Provincial Museum, B.C.
—40¾	16½	..	Yellowstone	British Museum
40¼	15¼	20¼	?	Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart.
—40	15¼	..	Rocky Mountains	Otho Shaw
40	15	21½	British Columbia	J. W. R. Young
39⅝	15⅜	..	Colorado	St. George Littledale
39½	16½	24¾	Montana	British Museum
39½	15½	19	?	Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart.
—39	15¾	..	?	W. A. Baillie-Grohman
38⅜	15½	22	?	Gerald Buxton
38¼	16⅜	..	Bighorn Mountains	H. Seton-Karr
38¼	15¼	19¼	Montana	Edmund Littledale
38¼	16	19	N.W. Territories	S. Ratcliff
38	17	..	Alberta, N.W.T.	Arnold Pike
38	15	..	British Columbia	Captain F. Cookson
—38	16½	..	British Columbia	Major C. C. Ellis
37¾	15⅞	23⅜	Mexico	J. A. H. Drought
—37¾	16¼	22½	British Columbia	J. O. Shields
37¼	15½	16	British Columbia	J. Turner-Turner
—37	16	31	Wyoming	T. W. H. Clarke
37	16¼	..	Montana	Major Maitland Kirwan
37	16⅝	16	British Columbia	R. H. Venables Kyrke
37	15½	18½	Wyoming	Lord Rodney
36¾	19	15	British Columbia	C. H. Kennard
36¾	15¼	22½	Wyoming	Moreton Frewen
36½	14½	..	Wyoming	Gerald Buxton
36½	16	..	?	Thomas Bate
36½	14	..	?	J. D. Cobbold
36¼	14⅜	18½	?	Gerald Buxton
36	14¾	16½	Montana	R. H. Sawyer
36	15½	..	Alberta, N.W.T.	Arnold Pike
36	14¾	16	Wyoming	Capt. G. Dalrymple White
—35⅞	14¾	17½	Wyoming	Count E. Hoyos
35¾	15¼	18½	British Columbia	G. Wrey
35¾	13¾	17½	British Columbia	Hon. S. Tollemache
35½	16	21	British Columbia	T. P. Kempson
35¼	12¼	16	California	Sir Victor Brooke’s Coll.
35¼	15¼	18½	British Columbia	Sir Peter Walker, Bart.
35	14	18½	British Columbia	Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart.
—35	15	19¾	Wyoming	Count Schiebler
35	14	16	Wyoming	Gerald Hardy
34½	14¾	19	S.E. Montana	J. A. Jameson
34½	14½	..	California	G. P. Fitzgerald
—34	16	17	N.W. Wyoming	A. Rogers
34	16¼	20	British Columbia Border	Barclay Bonthron
33½	15¼	..	British Columbia	Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart.
33	15⅜	18	British Columbia	Capt. E. G. Verschoyle
33	14¾	24½	Wyoming	Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. Coke
33	14½	22	?	F. H. B. Ellis
33	14	23	British Columbia	T. P. Kempson
33	15½	22	British Columbia	A. E. Butter
32¾	15½	17½	?	C. G. R. Lee
—32½	14⅝	19½	Fraser River, B.C.	A. E. Leatham
32½	15	17½	Lower California	G. Barnardiston
32	15¼	19½	British Columbia	J. W. Wood, Jr.
32	14¾	17¼	Yellowstone River	British Museum
31½	14½	17½	N.W. Territory	Maj. Algernon Heber-Percy
31	17½	..	Grand Encampment, Wyo.	Frank Cooper
—31	13	22	British Columbia	T. E. Buckley
30¾	15	23	?	Hon. Walter Rothschild
30½	15¾	about 17½	Lower California	Ely Quilter
30½	15½	18	Wyoming	J. L. Scarlett
—30½	14	15½	Wyoming	Hugh Peel
30	15¼	14	Alberta, N.W.T.	F. C. Williamson
ALASKAN BIGHORN (Ovis canadensis dalli)
34	12⅝	18⅛	Alaska	Rowland Ward
33	12¾	15	Alaska	Hon. Walter Rothschild
32½	13¼	20½	Alaska	J. T. Studley, British Museum
♀9⅛	4⅞	8	Alaska	British Museum

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THE WHITE GOAT AND HIS WAYS

By Owen Wister