The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 382
374 MAMMALIA—SHEEDP. of adeer. Several naturalists of eminence have considered it as forming but one species with the argali; and Cuvier supposes that 1t may have crossed Bhering’s Straits on the ice. It resembles the argali indeed, per- fectly in its manners, in the form of its bodv, and in the… … is an inhabitant of rocky and mountainous regions, and is principally found in the Alpine parts of Asia. Dr Pallas observed this species existing throughout the vast chain of mountains extending through the middle oi that continent to the Eastern Sea. These animals have large horns, arched…
Zoology
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