DCHP-3

Stone sheep

[< Andrew J. Stone, an American sportsman of Missoula, Montana, one of an expedition up the Stikine River for the American Museum of Natural History]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Stone's (mountain) sheep

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a sub-species of the mouain sheep, Ovis canadensis stonei, found in northern British Columbia and adjacent parts of the Yukon.

Quotations

1916
You will not get any wapiti or deer there, but . . . you could hardly fail to get specimens of moose, Osborn's caribou, Stone's sheep, and mountain goats, with a good chance of a grizzly or black bear or a wolf or fox.
1921
The following day I was lucky enough to kill a fine black bear and the next day two Stone's mountain sheep, or black sheep, so that we had an abundance of good meat.
1960
[Caption] Stone sheep on a mineral lick in the Spatsizi district of northern British Columbia.
1966
The Yukon big game season . . . enables the licence holder to take one of such big game as moose . . . Stone sheep, mountain goat or grizzly bear.