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THE mammal and bird fauna of Alaska and Yukon territory forms the subject of No, 30 of the “North American Fauna” (U.S. Department of Agriculture), The author, Mr. W. H. Osgood, gives the results of his observations, both on the nature of the country and the fauna, made during three traverses, namely, one through east central Alaska, a second through the Ogilvie Range of the Yukon, and a third along the course of the Mac-millan River. The habits, mutual relationships, and range of the different species form the main subject of the biological section, new names being very few. The attention of sportsmen may be directed to certain observations connected with the habits of moose; but, so far as mammals are concerned, the chief interest in this issue is concentrated in the announcement that the pure while bighorn sheep of the K-enai Peninsula, the so-called Ovis dalli, passes by imperceptible gradations into the black sheep (O. stonei) of the Stikine Valley. For the future these northern wild sheep must be regarded as local races of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn.
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Some Papers on American Zoology . Nature 82, 204 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082204b0
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