Ovis canadensis canadensis [Shaw]
Ovis canadensis [Shaw], Nat. Misc., vol. 15, text to pl. 610, about December, 1803.
Type.—Obtained in the mountains on Bow River; W. B. [Davis] (1939: 377) gives Dew River near Exshaw, Alberta.
Racial characters.—Large size; heavy, closely coiled horns.
Measurements.—[Cowan] (1940: 533) gives the measurements of a fully adult (6-year old) ram from Colorado as: total length 1,953; length of tail 127; hind foot 394; ear (dry) 63.
Distribution.—Now extinct in Washington. [Cowan] (op. cit.: 535) refers to this race as the sheep that formerly occurred in the Blue Mountains. This view seems logical but I feel that the sheep formerly occurring in the Pend Oreille Mountains of extreme northeastern Washington should, on the basis of geographic probability, also be referred to canadensis.
Ovis canadensis californiana Douglas
Ovis californianus Douglas, Zoöl. Jour., 4:332, 1829.
Ovis californica Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1:272, 1829.