The Great Arc of the Wild Sheep

by Clark, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780806114729
• ISBN10: 080611472X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Wild sheep are found nowhere in the world outside their Great Arc, a range stretching from the western part of North America up through Alaska, across eastern Siberia, and down through Central Asia. Drawing on more than fifty years of experience observing, hunting, and collecting wild sheep, James L. Clark gives complete descriptions of every classified variety including information on pelage color, habitat, body characteristics, behavior, and typical measurements.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
S. Dillon Ripley
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE: The Sheep of the Mediterranean Islands and the Near Eastern Countries
The Mouflons	3	(3)
The Urials	6	(35)
PART TWO: The Sheep of Central and Eastern Asia
The Argalis	41	(95)
The Asiatic Bighorns	136	(16)
PART THREE: The Sheep of North America	152	(81)
The Dall Sheep	155	(24)
The American Bighorns	179	(13)
The Desert Bighorns	192	(41)
APPENDICES
I: A Scoring System for Evaluating the Over-all Excellence of Sheep Horns	220	(2)
II: Classification of the Mouflons and Urials	222	(1)
III: Classification of the Ovis ammon	223	(1)
IV: Classification of the Asiatic Bighorns	224	(1)
V: Classification of the Dall Sheep	225	(1)
VI: Classification of the North American Bighorns	226	(1)
VII: Comparison of an Asiatic Bighorn and an American Stone Sheep	227	(1)
VIII: Cross-Sections of Sheep Horns	228	(2)
IX: The Sheep's Position in the Animal Kingdom	230	(1)
X: Skull-Length Measurement as an Indication of the Relative Sizes of the Wild Sheep	231	(2)
Bibliography	233	(3)
Index	236