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Kogmolik Indians, 92.

Kookpugmioot Indians, 92.

Lambs of mountain sheep, 208-222.

“Land of Little Sticks,” 17, 36.

Laramie Plains, buffaloes on the, 124, 125.

Lewis, Meriwether, 175-176, 245, 255-257. Confusion of goat and sheep by, 251, 255-260.

Livingston, Mont., mountain sheep seen at, 171-173, 183-184.

London, live musk-ox in, 103.

Loucheaux Indians, 91.

Lydekker, Professor R., 75, 79. “The Royal Natural History” of, 246.

Mackenzie River, musk-oxen not found west of, 86-93.

Maclaine of Lochbuie, the, horns of sheep owned by, 224.

Maps, mistakes in, 244-245.

Mazama Sericea, white goat named, 259.

Mexico, mountain sheep in, 181 n., 247.

Migrations, buffalo, 137-142. Caribou, in Barren Grounds, 44, 47-48.

Mississippi, buffaloes formerly in, 121.

“Missouri River Journal,” Audubon’s, quoted, 157-159.

Moccasins essential in Barren Ground outfit, 39.

Montana, bison horns from, 166. Mountain sheep in, 225, 226. White goat in, 250, 275.

Moore, Francis, “Voyage to Georgia” of, 121.

Moose [Alces], 120.

Mosquitoes in Barren Grounds, 44.

Moufflon, the, of Corsica, 182.

Mt. Evarts, sheep on, 273.

Mountain bison, 126, 135-136.

Mountain sheep [American bighorn, Ovis canadensis], 171-226. Color, 179-180. Description, 179-183, 223-224. Distribution, 176, 224. Habitat, 199, 246-247. Height, 224. Hide, 179. Horns, 223-225. Hostility to goat, 233-237, 245-246. Keenness of sight, 219. Lambs, 208-222. Method of hunting, 197-199. Range, 176, 224. Rutting season, 184, 208. Species and subdivisions, 180-182. Weight, 224. White goat and, 233-237, 245-246. White variety [Ovis dalli], 181, 201.

Munn, Henry Toke, 47.

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