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white sheep
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a goatlike mammal, Oreamnos montanus, found in the western mountains and related to the European chamois.
See: Rocky Mountain goat
Quotations
1825
I have taken the liberty of sending a few Curiosities collected . . . along the Coast. Among them you will find two Skins of what our people call the White Sheep of the Rocky Mountains, but it resembles more a Goat with Black Horns.
1888
English sportsmen call it the Rocky Mountain goat; natives in the cascades call it "the white sheep"; naturalists. . . call it an antelope. . . .
2
the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.
See: Dall sheep
Quotations
1954
So the river was useless to us, and over . . . on the north bank and up Trowel Tail's Creek, the beavers could proceed with their logging, and the white sheep could come down to their licks unmolested.
1958
The white or "Dall" sheep occur in northern British Columbia, the Yukon and Northwest Territories. . . .