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Rocky Mountain sheep
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a sheep, Ovis canadensis, found in the western mountains.
Quotations
1794, 1911
[There are a kind of large sheep on the Rocky Mountains, their horns the size of a cow's.]
1821
1 Horn, Rocky Mountain Sheep.
1892
Of mammals found in Canada which are not known elsewhere in the world except to the southward in the same Nearctic region . . . the following may be mentioned: Rocky Mountain goat, Bighorn, or Rocky Mountain sheep. . . .
1964
Waterton Lakes National Parks officials have weighed, measured and marked 30 Rocky Mountain and Bighorn sheep this spring. . . .