Ovis canadensis Shaw, 1804 . Nat. Misc., 51, text to pl. 610.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw .

DISTRIBUTION: S. British Columbia and S.W. Alberta (Canada) to Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California (Mexico).

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:218, included nivicola; but see also Korobitsyna et al., 1974, Quat. Res., 4:235-245; Corbet and Hill, 1980:127.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419009041002001.