The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . and bye to a friend of ours, an ardent lover ofthe pleasures of the chase, and who has long been anxiousto stock Annandale well with foxes, maitgre the welfare ofthe woolly people. We, of course, quarrel with no manstaste, notwithstanding of Andrew Fairservices saw anent land louping for days after a bit beastie that will no weighsix pund when ye catcht; but this we may predict verysafely, that the foxes, when they are old enough, will evincetheir gratitude by helping themselves to a tithe of his lambson the hill, and more than a tithe
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . and bye to a friend of ours, an ardent lover ofthe pleasures of the chase, and who has long been anxiousto stock Annandale well with foxes, maitgre the welfare ofthe woolly people. We, of course, quarrel with no manstaste, notwithstanding of Andrew Fairservices saw anent land louping for days after a bit beastie that will no weighsix pund when ye catcht; but this we may predict verysafely, that the foxes, when they are old enough, will evincetheir gratitude by helping themselves to a tithe of his lambson the hill, and more than a tithe of his good ladys Courier. PIGEON MATCH. A SHOOTING match at Pigeons was decided on the 15thof July, at Germantown, between Doctor S. and Mr. L. forfifty dollars a side, at ten birds each, and was won by theformer gentleman, he having killed his ten birds—and thelatter nine, missing the first bird. Another match occurred on the same day and place,with several on a side, but we have not been able to procurea statement of the AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 193 AMERICAN ARGALI. •*- OVIS MONTANA. [Plate XVII. Male and Female.] White Buffalo.—Mackenzie, Voyages. Mountain —New York Med. Repos. vol. vi. Bis;Horn.—Lewis and Clark. Ovis Montana.—Desjia-KEST, Mamm. Cuvier, Reg. an. Richardson, Faun. Ovis Animon.—Godman. Harlan. Ovis Am-mon var Pygargus.—Griffith, An. King. RockyMountain Sheep.—Warden. Unit. St.—PhiladelphiaMuseum. No part of natural science is environed with greater diffi-culties, or presents more obstacles to the inquirer, than thehistory of those animals which have been the companionsand slaves of man from the earliest ages; this is stronglyexemplified in the Sheep, whose almost innumerable varie-ties are to be met with in every civilized portion of theglobe. In the investigation of this subject many questionsof importance arise, which have no inconsiderable bearingon the issue, though from the present
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