Field notes, v1670
Page 301
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D. Strong 1925 (Copy) when a kid, about two months old came out on the rock and began to nurse. He was dark mouse color -- with white buttucks and short horns. For perhaps twenty minutes we watched these three sheep thru the glasses -- the youngster acted as though he owned the mountain, he was interested in us for a short while then went to his mother and sitting down on his back haunches began to nurse butting his mother in the flanks with his short budding horns. This was evid. a diff. group than the one we were after, no rams came into view, so we studied them at our leisure thru field glasses. The ewe was dun gray with black patches, she was old and scarred. The yearling buck had horns which looked yellow He was lighter than the & and in splendid cond. belly almost white and the buttocks light, the short tail black. Finally they began to pick their way leis- urly down the ridge, walking with ease over the sharply sloping rocks. The kid romped along bounding after his mother. They went out of sight below us and we had no desire to shoot. The intimate glimpse, the majestic desolate setting and the thrill of the risky chase were sufficient. As we suspected, the other sheep had preceded them down the ridge and we saw no more. Watched the Duck hawks wheeling around the ridge and finally worked our way down the ridge in about two hours getting to camp all in but satisfied.