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Among the rare and specially interesting objects received, the most valuable prize was a young Rocky Mountain Sheep, or Big Horn ([[underline]]Ovis montana[[/underline]]), female, from Mr Geo. Bird Grinnell, Editor of ^[[the]] New York [[underline]]Forest and Stream[[/underline]]. This interesting animal was captured in the mountains of North-western Montana, by a Piegan Indian, in June, 1888, and was procured from him by Mr Grinnell, [[strikethrough]]and[[/strikethrough]] who conveyed ^[[it]] to the nearest railway at very considerable trouble, in October of the same year. It arrived at the museum in good condition, and has thriven as satisfactorily, and with as much rapidity, as any domestic lamb. Inasmuch as there is, as far as known, only one other specimen ^[[of [[underline]]Ovis montana[[/underline]]]] in captivity, this individual is particularly interesting. It has been photographed, weighed and measured at intervals, and its development carefully watched.  In ^[[the issue of]] [[underline]]Forest and Stream[[/underline]] for June 6, 1889, there appeared a very interesting biographical sketch of this animal, by Mr Grinnell, illustrated by a fine engraving from an instantaneous photograph by Mr T.W. Smillie. It is ^[[confidently]] believed that the mountain sheep can be quite successfully acclimated, and bred in the climate of Washington, and experiments in that direction will be tried as soon as the Zoological Park is ready to accommodate specimens.